Stale Closures in React: Why useState Gives You the Wrong Value

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This article covers: stale closure react, usestate stale value, react closure bug, react stale state, functional update usestate, react render closures.

A stale closure captures state from a previous render and never lets go. It is the most common useState bug, and understanding why it happens makes it impossible to miss.

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