AVOID THE STATE SYNCHRONIZATION TRAP

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

A common issue faced in frontend state management is the synchronization of related states like columns and filters in a data table UI. This article walks through several flawed approaches—direct setters, gate setters, and useEffect—and ultimately recommends deriving shared state through selectors to avoid duplication, glitches, and refetches. State should be shaped so that dependencies are implicit and managed reactively, not manually.