React.useEffect dependency has a missing dependency

Question

I want to use the checked value in useEffect but don't want to add it in dependency array as I don't want useEffect to be called on checked updation.

But I am getting the warning "React Hook useEffect has missing dependency :"checked".Either include it or remove the dependency array".

const[checked , setChecked] = React.useState(false);

useEffect(() = >{
     if(data.length && !checked){
        setChecked(true)
     }
     else{
      //something
     }
    },[data]);

Answer 1

One way you can do this is with a usePrevious hook to track the last value of checked. If prevChecked and checked are not equal, then you would cancel early.

const[checked , setChecked] = React.useState(false);

const prevChecked = usePrevious(checked)

useEffect(() = >{
  if (prevChecked !== checked) return
  
  if(data.length && !checked){
    setChecked(true)
  }
  else{
  //something
  }
},[data, prevChecked, checked]);