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Discussion on: An elegant solution for memory leaks in React

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Franciszek Krasnowski

Yes, you did. What you just do is eliminating the warning, not solving anything. This is a good example of one of the worst attitudes to "solving" problems in programming. You will end up with a buggy program with no warning. Is that what you want?

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Nans Dumortier • Edited

Heya, please do not be rough, we're being professional and debating!
You are actually right, thank you for pointing out 😉. I wrote another answer here showing the memory consumption :

Yeah, thanks for your answer, I just went through some test, and must admit that this hook doesn't really solve the leak problem.
Here is a screenshot of the evidence :
a graph showing memory consumption over time, that grows

So you, Aleksandr and Xavier are right, thank you guys for pointing out!

I must say that I was mistaken when reading through this - kind of famous - lib's code. Being downloaded 17000+ times a week, I thought it would use good practices.

I'm going to update the documentation and the article to add a disclaimer about that, and in the meantime I will try to find another elegant solution.





and will (soon) take measures to ensure this is not misused.
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Aleksandr Hovhannisyan

All good. I vaguely recall reading about a future React feature a while back that was supposed to solve this issue of memory leaks, but I can't remember what it was called. Something about a new way to make API calls.

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Nans Dumortier

I'm trying to investigate for a better and if possible elegant solution, if by any chance you get one, please share it with me ! 😄

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Franciszek Krasnowski

Yeah. I think the problem is much wider. There are so many misleading articles in this matter (canceling async request). For example '' JavaScript Promise is miraculously leakproof ", " There is no need for cleaning up after requests " - these are such common beliefs. I would call myself a newbie and I know how hard it is to trust to some resources

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Nans Dumortier

Yeah, I really feel deceived by all those articles and libs out there.
I must say I don't really know if there is a true good solution, since even AbortController doesn't seem to work ...
BTW I updated the article and invited the readers to come and check the discussions out 👍.