React
Jul 2026 7 min read
Most of Your useEffects Shouldn't Exist
useEffect is React's most misused hook. A field guide to effects that are just syncing computable state or misplaced logic — and the few that should stay.
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useEffect is React's most misused hook. A field guide to effects that are just syncing computable state or misplaced logic — and the few that should stay.
At a few screens, copy-paste is fine. At eighty, it kills you. The resource abstraction that held an 80-module admin platform together — and its escape hatches.
How to make a page composable from configuration — toggle and reorder sections without touching JSX — using a typed registry and the App Router.