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How to avoid unnecessary API calls with useEffect?

I'm still beginner to ReactJS and I'm having trouble rendering a list.
I don't know why, all the time calls are being made to my API. Since I don't put any dependency on useEffect, that is, I should only render my function once.
I don't understand why this is happening. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Here's my code I put into codesandbox.io
import React from "react";
import axios from "axios";
import "./styles.css";
const App = () => {
const BASE_URL = "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2";
const [pokemons, setPokemons] = React.useState([]);
const getAllPokemons = async () => {
const { data } = await axios.get(`${BASE_URL}/pokemon`);
data.results.map((pokemon) => getPokeType(pokemon));
};
const getPokeType = async (pokemon) => {
const { data } = await axios.get(pokemon.url);
setPokemons((prev) => [...prev, data]);
};
React.useEffect(() => {
getAllPokemons();
}, []);
console.log(pokemons);
return (
<div className="App">
<h1>Hello CodeSandbox</h1>
{pokemons.map((pokemon) => (
<p key={pokemon.id} style={{ color: "blue" }}>
{pokemon.name}
</p>
))}
</div>
);
};
export default App;
Thank you very much in advance.

Your issue is that you are calling setPokemons inside getPokeType (which is called for each data in part). Your useEffect is called just once (as expected) and the ${BASE_URL}/pokemon call is executed just once too. But getPokeType is called 20 times and the pokemons state is changed 20 times as well (once for each instance from data.results).
What I would recommend in your case (instead of what you have now) is:
Create a list of all the pokemons and
Set the state just once at the end.
So something like:
...
const getPokeType = async (pokemon) => {
const { data } = await axios.get(pokemon.url);
return data;
};
const getAllPokemons = async () => {
const { data } = await axios.get(`${BASE_URL}/pokemon`);
const pokemons = await Promise.all(
data.results.map((pokemon) => getPokeType(pokemon))
);
setPokemons(pokemons);
};
React.useEffect(() => {
getAllPokemons();
}, []);
...

I was just having the same issue in my project the way I solved is by moving the function definition inside the useEffect
React.useEffect(() => {
const getAllPokemons = async () => {
const { data } = await axios.get(`${BASE_URL}/pokemon`);
data.results.map((pokemon) => getPokeType(pokemon));
};
getAllPokemons();
}, []);
If this solves your problem please accept the answer.

Asynchronously update state hook in react

I am trying to set a state generated by useState in an async function, but I found if I do like this, react would render my component infinitely.
This is a demo I made
export const App = () => {
const [nodes, setNodes] = useState([])
// some async refresh code, like http request, like axios.get("/list-nodes").then ...
const refresh = async () => {
let arr = []
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
arr.push(Math.random())
}
setNodes(arr)
}
refresh();
return (
<div>
{
nodes.map(v =>
<div>
value: {v}
</div>)
}
</div>
)
}
In the code, the rendering is continuously happening and the numbers are keeping changing.
May I ask how I am able to set a state in an async function correctly?

You need to use a useEffect hook to fetch data on the first render only. If not, the component fetches at every render, which happens every time the state is updated, which render the component ...
export const App = () => {
const [nodes, setNodes] = useState([]);
useEffect(()=>{
//Self calling async function
//Be carefull to add a ; at the end of the last line
(async () => {
let data = await fetch(url)
let json = await data.json()
setNodes(data)
})()
},[])
return (
<div>
{ nodes.map(node => <div>Value: {node}</div>) }
</div>
)
}

You can use useEffect
export default function App() {
const [nodes, setNodes] = useState([]);
const refresh = async () => {
let arr = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
arr.push(Math.random());
}
setNodes(arr);
};
useEffect(() => {refresh(); }, []);
return (
<div className="App">
{nodes.map((v) => (
<div>value: {v}</div>
))}
</div>
);}

logging the data but not rendering p tag , why?

I am using firebase firestore and i fetched the data , everything is working fine but when i am passing it to some component only one item gets passed but log shows all the elements correctly.
I have just started learning react , any help is appreciated.
import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
import { auth, provider, db } from './firebase';
import DataCard from './DataCard'
function Explore() {
const [equipmentList, setEquipments] = useState([]);
const fetchData = async () => {
const res = db.collection('Available');
const data = await res.get();
data.docs.forEach(item => {
setEquipments([...equipmentList, item.data()]);
})
}
useEffect(() => {
fetchData();
}, [])
equipmentList.forEach(item => {
//console.log(item.description);
})
const dataJSX =
<>
{
equipmentList.map(eq => (
<div key={eq.uid}>
{console.log(eq.equipment)}
<p>{eq.equipment}</p>
</div>
))
}
</>
return (
<>
{dataJSX}
</>
)
}
export default Explore

You have problems with setting fetched data into the state.
You need to call setEquipments once when data is prepared because you always erase it with an initial array plus an item from forEach.
The right code for setting equipment is
const fetchData = async () => {
const res = db.collection('Available');
const data = await res.get();
setEquipments(data.docs.map(item => item.data()))
}

How can I return only the set-State from my fetched json data?

im using this Api to get json data.
const FetchEarthquakeData = url => {
const [data, setData] = useState(null);
useEffect(() => {
fetch(url)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(jsonData => setData(jsonData.features))
}, [url]);
return data;
};
The problem is when I use this function like this:
const jsonData = FetchEarthquakeData(url)
console.log(jsonData);
I get following console.logs:
null
Array(17)
So my function FetchEarthquakeData returns the null variable and! the desired api. However if I want to map() over the jsonData, the null value gets mapped. How can I refactor my code so I get only the Array?

I'm not quite sure what useState() and setData() do. But in order to fetch the json data from the API, you can make the function as followed, then you can perform operations on the fetched data.
const url = "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/4.5_day.geojson"
const FetchEarthquakeData = url => {
return new Promise(resolve => {
fetch(url)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(jsonData => resolve(jsonData.features))
})
}
FetchEarthquakeData(url).then(features => {
console.log(features)
// Do your map() here
})

as per the documentation of react hooks ,Only Call Hooks from React Functions Don’t call Hooks from regular JavaScript functions.
React Function Components -- which are basically just JavaScript Functions being React Components which return JSX (React's Syntax.)
for your requirement you can do as follows in your react component.
idea is to have state hook initialized with empty array then update it once json data available. the fetch logic can be moved inside useeffect .
const SampleComponent=()=>{
const [data,setData] = useState([])
useeffect (){
fetch(url).then((responsedata)=>setData(responseData) ,err=>console.log (err)
}
return (
<>
{
data.map((value,index)=>
<div key=index>{value}<div>
}
</>
)
}
if you find above fetching pattern repetitive in your app thou can use a custom hook for the same.
const useFetch = (url, options) => {
const [response, setResponse] = React.useState(null);
const [error, setError] = React.useState(null);
React.useEffect(() => {
const fetchData = async () => {
try {
const res = await fetch(url, options);
const json = await res.json();
setResponse(json);
} catch (error) {
setError(error);
}
};
fetchData();
}, []);
return { response, error };
};
in your React component you can use like
const {data,error} = useFetch(url , options)

You have to do it in an async fashion in order to achieve what you need.
I recommend you doing it separately. In case you need the data to load when the component mounts.
Another thing is that your function is a bit confusing.
Let's assume some things:
const Example = () => {
const [data, setData] = useState(null);
useEffect(() => {
const fetchData = async () => {
const result = await fetch(url);
setData(result.features);
};
fetchData();
}, []);
return (
<div>
{console.log(data)}
{data && <p>{JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)}</p>}
</div>
);
};
I am sure that the way you are doing it is storing the data properly on data, but you can not see it on your console.log. It is a bit tricky.
You can read a bit more here => https://medium.com/#wereHamster/beware-react-setstate-is-asynchronous-ce87ef1a9cf3
Adding a bit more of complexity in case you want to handle different states like loading and error.
const Example = () => {
const [data, setData] = useState(null);
const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(false);
const [isError, setIsError] = useState(false);
useEffect(() => {
const fetchData = async () => {
setIsError(false);
setIsLoading(true);
try {
const result = await fetch(url);
setData(result.features);
} catch (error) {
setIsError(true);
}
setIsLoading(false);
};
fetchData();
}, []);
return (
<div>
{console.log(data)}
{data && <p>{JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)}</p>}
</div>
);
};

React Hook's state not getting updated

I've built a React Hook as follows:
const Index = (props) => {
const [posts, setPosts] = useState([])
useEffect(() => {
const getPosts = async () => {
const posts = await getPostFromWebService()
for (let i of posts) {
setPosts([ ...posts, i ])
}
}
getPosts()
}, [])
// ... remaining code
}
But even if the web service returns 5 posts, only the last posts is getting updated in the posts state. Hence it only receives one post in it, instead of 5.
What am I doing wrong here?

It sounds like you want something like this. Here we would have the useEffect listen for any changes in postCount so that we can trigger your logic to fetch more posts.
const Index = (props) => {
const [posts, setPosts] = useState([])
const [postCount, setPostCount] = useState(0)
useEffect(() => {
const getPosts = async () => {
const newPosts= await getPostFromWebService()
setPosts([...posts, newPosts])
}
}, [postCount])
return(
<div>
<button onClick={() => setPostCount(postCount + 5)}>Get more posts</button>
</div>
)
}