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facebook/react
A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
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#24085: Memory leak when unmounting components
32 comments •128 reactions •2 days ago
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Issue Summary

42 comments

Memory leak in useEffect

This issue affects large datasets and has three proposed solutions:

  • Memoization with useMemo
  • Implementing cleanup function
  • Using a worker thread (preferred)
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