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THE DATA SHOULD JUST FLOW

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

React memoization techniques, like `useMemo` and `useEffect`, can lead to stale data if dependencies are incorrectly specified, creating a "clog" in the data flow. This is because of closures in JavaScript, where outdated values are captured if dependencies are omitted. The React compiler hopes to solve this by automatically handling dependencies.