"Run this once, when the component appears." It's the single most common effect in React — focus an...
"Run this once, when the component appears." It's the single most common effect in React — focus an input, fire an analytics event, open a connection, read from a browser API. The idiom everyone reaches for is useEffect with an empty dependency array:
useEffect(() => {
trackPageView("/checkout");
// eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
}, []);
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