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Daniel Bugl
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Daniel Bugl is a CEO, Software Architect and Full Stack Developer for his company TouchLay, developing a platform for interactive presentations. He also consults large multinational enterprises on the development and integration of React frontends with various backend systems, including the integration of legacy systems, and helps out with the setup and development of such projects. He has a bachelor's degree in business informatics and a master's degree in data science.
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Dealing with useEffect dependencies

In addition to enforcing the rules of Hooks, we are also checking whether all the variables that are used in an Effect Hook are passed to its dependency array. This exhaustive dependencies rule ensures that whenever something that is used inside the Effect Hook changes (a function, value, and so on), the Hook will trigger again.

As we have seen in the previous section, there are a couple warnings related to the exhaustive dependencies rule when running the linter with npm run lint. Often, it has to do with the dispatch function or other functions not being part of the dependency array. Usually, these functions should not change, but we can never be sure, so it is better to just add them to the dependencies.

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Daniel Bugl is a CEO, Software Architect and Full Stack Developer for his company TouchLay, developing a platform for interactive presentations. He also consults large multinational enterprises on the development and integration of React frontends with various backend systems, including the integration of legacy systems, and helps out with the setup and development of such projects. He has a bachelor's degree in business informatics and a master's degree in data science.
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