Should You Stop Using isMounted in React?

Overcoming one of the oldest antipatterns in React

Bikash Paneru
Better Programming
Published in
3 min readOct 31, 2022

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If you are familiar with the React component lifecycle, you know that a React component goes through a mounting stage and an unmounting stage. If you have used class components, then you have used lifecycle hooks such as componentDidMount and componentWillUnmount to set up and clean up the component.

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