Using React useEffect with TypeScript

Sterling Cobb
2 min readDec 9, 2022

React is a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces, and TypeScript is a popular typed superset of JavaScript that adds features such as type checking and interfaces. In this blog post, we’ll look at how to use the useEffect hook in React with TypeScript.

useEffect is a hook in React that allows you to perform side effects in function components. This is useful for doing things like fetching data or setting up event listeners.

Here’s an example of how to use useEffect to fetch data from an API in a React component with…

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