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Stop writing useEffect for data fetching. Use Request Strategies instead.

I've been a React developer for about three years. And for most of that time, I wrote data fetching the same way everyone else did:

useEffect (() => { fetch ( ' /api/users ' ) . then ( res => res . json ()) . then ( setData ) . catch ( setError ) . finally (() => setLoading ( false )); }, []);

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It works. But it's not good.

Every list page. Every search box. Every filter. Same pattern. And the code kept growing — loading states, error handling, debounce timers, race condition flags.…