For what it's worth, "the deps being the things sent to the query" is fundamentally correct. What were you doing wrong before and what are you doing now? There

For what it's worth, "the deps being the things sent to the query" is fundamentally correct. What were you doing wrong before and what are you doing now? There are alternatives to making queries with useEffect which can result in a better user experience. Were you alluding to those? One of the sources of confusion I see the most around effects is that people still think of them in terms of components mounting and unmounting. However, effects only care about running, cleaning up, and maybe needing to run again. I can't think of a case when they'd need to know about the component's mount/unmount behavior. For effects, the main things to consider are: • Can this effect be fired unconditionally, and if not, what could change in the system to make its result inconsistent/outdated with the new state of the system? • What cleanup does this effect need?