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If you are totally against setting state in a useEffect, how would you recommend doing this kind of thing? Assume a SPA.

I _assume_ people mean doing it synchronously in the effect, but I could be missing something

yea

Yeah, folks are getting from something that state setting in a useEffect is bad, period. So I end up getting even when it's something like this. I certainly agree sync setting is bad, but data loading like this is fine, IMHO. RQ is certainly nicer, but not required.

Technical communication is hard because technically that set state is not “in” the effect. The effect just calls the promise. But you can’t blame a lot of people for thinking this *is* inside the effect since the code is between the brackets haha.

No idea where this is coming from. Setting state unconditionally during the synchronous portion of useEffect is bad, for the same reason that setting state unconditionally during render is bad (infinite render loop). Setting state asynchronously eg due to timer/subscription is fine.