How to go async with useEffect

Fernando Abolafio
3 min readMar 25, 2021

Execute asynchronous tasks with useEffect clean and safely

From calling an API to set a timeout delay, I am sure you already questioned how to do it properly when using the React hook useEffect . If that sounds still blurred, then this article is for you. If not, you may at least learn a different approach to get the job done or feel more confident while doing it.

Fernando Abolafio

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