stop all instances of node.js server

Windows Machine: Need to kill a Node.js server, and you don’t have any other Node processes running, you can tell your machine to kill all processes named node.exe. That would look like this: And if the processes still persist, you can force the processes to terminate by adding the /f flag: If you need more fine-grained control and … Read more

React Hook Warnings for async function in useEffect: useEffect function must return a cleanup function or nothing

I suggest to look at Dan Abramov (one of the React core maintainers) answer here: I think you’re making it more complicated than it needs to be. Longer term we’ll discourage this pattern because it encourages race conditions. Such as — anything could happen between your call starts and ends, and you could have gotten new … Read more

What is prevState in ReactJS? [duplicate]

prevState is a name that you have given to the argument passed to setState callback function. What it holds is the value of state before the setState was triggered by React; Since setState does batching, its sometimes important to know what the previous state was when you want to update the new state based on the previous state value. So … Read more

Getting “TypeError: failed to fetch” when the request hasn’t actually failed

The issue could be with the response you are receiving from back-end. If it was working fine on the server then the problem could be with the response headers. Check the Access-Control-Allow-Origin (ACAO) in the response headers. Usually react’s fetch API will throw fail to fetch even after receiving response when the response headers’ ACAO and the … Read more