.nickman•13mo ago

useMutation in useEffect dependency array causes infinite loop

I had a very unexpected issue today when testing out some code. I have a simple sum method in tRPC that accepts two numbers and returns the sum. I can change both of the number seperately in state and trigger the mutation every time I see a change in one of the two values (not an ideal way of handling this, but it is test code 😉 )

  const [first, setFirst] = useState(0);
  const [second, setSecond] = useState(0);
  const [sum, setSum] = useState(0);
  const sumMutation = trpcNext.events.sum.useMutation();

  const handleFirstChange = useCallback(
    async (event: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
      setFirst(+event.target.value);
    },
    []
  );
  const handleSecondChange = useCallback(
    async (event: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
      setSecond(+event.target.value);
    },
    []
  );

  useEffect(() => {
    debugger;
    sumMutation.mutateAsync({ first, second }).then((result) => {
      setSum(result.output);
    });
  }, [first, second/*, sumMutation*/]);

  const [first, setFirst] = useState(0);
  const [second, setSecond] = useState(0);
  const [sum, setSum] = useState(0);
  const sumMutation = trpcNext.events.sum.useMutation();

  const handleFirstChange = useCallback(
    async (event: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
      setFirst(+event.target.value);
    },
    []
  );
  const handleSecondChange = useCallback(
    async (event: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
      setSecond(+event.target.value);
    },
    []
  );

  useEffect(() => {
    debugger;
    sumMutation.mutateAsync({ first, second }).then((result) => {
      setSum(result.output);
    });
  }, [first, second/*, sumMutation*/]);

As you can see I commented out the sumMutation dependency in my useEffect, as adding this causes an infinite loop of calls to the tRPC server. It seems like this mutation is not a stable function and gets re-initialised every single render loop? Is this to be expected? I would assume you want this method to remain stable so it can actually be used inside of hook dependencies? Running on tRPC 10.32.0 right now with no customisation to reqct-query or anything, basic tRPC setup. (in next.js)

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mark salsbery•13mo ago

sumMutation isn’t a function, it’s the return value of a call to useMutation It looks to me like the useEffect is redundant anyway…you should be able to mutate from your event handlers