Part 4 [RBP] Clean Up Your Fetch Requests

This lesson focuses on preventing race conditions that can occur when making multiple fetch calls in React components, leading to inconsistent UI behavior and a poor user experience.

• Identifying Race Conditions: Understand how race conditions happen when asynchronous fetch requests resolve in an unexpected order, particularly with slow or unreliable network connections.
• Strategies for Avoiding Race Conditions: Learn how to use tools like SWR or React Query to manage fetch requests and automatically handle race conditions, or implement manual cleanup logic with an "ignore" flag to discard outdated responses.
• Improving Code Structure: Discover how to keep your fetch-related code organized and maintainable, especially when dealing with loading and error states, setting the stage for cleaner solutions covered in the next lesson.

Links:

• Florian’s free web development playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrnPJCHvNZuDG6BWjUFVxeWyYlve_SVJO
• Code link: https://github.com/codinginflow/react-best-practices/blob/fetch-cleanup/src/app/page.tsx