Listening to window events without cleaning them up
A particularly insidious type of memory leak occurs when you add event listeners to the window object but fail to remove them when your React component unmounts. Here’s what you….
Tag: useEffect cleanup
Forgetting to remove event listeners on unmount
A common memory leak issue in React occurs when event listeners aren’t properly removed when components unmount. Here’s how to handle this correctly: The Problem When you add event listeners….
Forgetting to remove event listeners on unmount
Forgetting to Remove Event Listeners on Unmount in React A common memory leak issue in React occurs when event listeners aren’t properly cleaned up when components unmount. This can lead….