React useEffect causing infinite re-renders when fetching data with dependencies
I'm migrating some code and I tried several approaches but none seem to work. I recently switched to I've been working on this all day and I'm working with an scenario where my component keeps re-rendering infinitely when I use `useEffect` to fetch data from an API. My setup uses React 17.0.2, and I have a dependency array that includes a state variable. Here's a simplified version of my component: ```javascript import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react'; const DataFetchingComponent = () => { const [data, setData] = useState(null); const [count, setCount] = useState(0); useEffect(() => { const fetchData = async () => { const response = await fetch(`https://api.example.com/data?count=${count}`); const result = await response.json(); setData(result); }; fetchData(); }, [count]); return ( <div> <h1>Data: {data ? JSON.stringify(data) : 'Loading...'}</h1> <button onClick={() => setCount(prevCount => prevCount + 1)}>Fetch New Data</button> </div> ); }; export default DataFetchingComponent; ``` The question occurs when I click the button to increment `count`. Instead of fetching the new data based on the updated `count`, the component enters an infinite loop and shows the following behavior in the console: ``` Warning: Too many re-renders. React limits the number of renders to prevent an infinite loop. ``` I've tried moving the fetch logic into a separate function outside the useEffect and calling it directly, but that didn’t change the behavior. What am I missing here? How can I properly manage my state updates without causing these infinite renders? Is there a better approach? This is my first time working with Javascript LTS. This issue appeared after updating to Javascript stable. Am I approaching this the right way? I'm open to any suggestions. My development environment is Windows 11. How would you solve this?