To fix, cancel all subscriptions and asynchronous tasks in a useEffect cleanup function

Question

I have this code

import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import React, { useState, useEffect } from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route         


        

Answer 1

Without @windmaomao answer, I could spend other hours trying to figure out how to cancel the subscription.

In short, I used two hooks respectively useCallback to memoize function and useEffect to fetch data.

  const fetchSpecificItem = useCallback(async ({ itemId }) => {
    try {
        ... fetch data

      /* 
       Before you setState ensure the component is mounted
       otherwise, return null and don't allow to unmounted component.
      */

      if (!mountedRef.current) return null;

      /*
        if the component is mounted feel free to setState
      */
    } catch (error) {
      ... handle errors
    }
  }, [mountedRef]) // add variable as dependency

I used useEffect to fetch data.

I could not call the function inside effect simply because hooks can not be called inside a function.

   useEffect(() => {
    fetchSpecificItem(input);
    return () => {
      mountedRef.current = false;   // clean up function
    };
  }, [input, fetchSpecificItem]);   // add function as dependency

Thanks, everyone your contribution helped me to learn more about the usage of hooks.