Why does useEffect run two times?
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How to fix the useEffect runs twice problem
React 18 released in March 2022 changed the default behavior of useEffect()
.
I didn’t even realize it at first, reading the React 18 launch post, buried along a lot of new features.
If your application is behaving strangely after updating to React 18, the default behavior of useEffect
changed to run it 2 times.
Just in development mode, but this is the mode everyone builds their application on.
And just in strict mode, but that’s now the default for applications built using Vite, create-react-app
or Next.js.
There are reasons for this.
It’s not a problem of your code - it’s how things work now in React.
The only way to disable this behavior is to disable strict mode.
Strict mode is important so this is a temporary workaround until you can fix any issue this change introduced.
In Vite, go to src/main.jsx
and remove the <React.StrictMode>
wrapper component, from:
import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client'
import App from './App'
import './index.css'
ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')).render(
<React.StrictMode>
<App />
</React.StrictMode>,
)
to:
import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client'
import App from './App'
import './index.css'
ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')).render(
<App />
)
You can do it in Next.js by adding the option
reactStrictMode: false
in your next.config.js
file.
In create-react-app
you can go in your index.js file and remove the StrictMode higher order component, from:
import React, { StrictMode } from 'react';
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
import App from './App';
const rootElement = document.getElementById('root');
const root = createRoot(rootElement);
root.render(
<StrictMode>
<App />
</StrictMode>
);
to
import React from 'react';
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
import App from './App';
const rootElement = document.getElementById('root');
const root = createRoot(rootElement);
root.render(
<App />
);
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