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Fixing a React Memory Leak by Cleaning Up useEffect

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Fixing a React Memory Leak by Cleaning Up useEffect

EDITOR BRIEF

A React dashboard fetched data from a REST API and sometimes showed warnings when users left a page before a request finished. The cause was an async request trying to update state after the component unmounted. The fix used AbortController in useEffect cleanup to cancel the request and prevent memory leaks.

INSIGHTS

This is a common React pattern: always clean up async work in useEffect. Try adding a cleanup function and using AbortController in your own fetch calls to avoid updating unmounted components.

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