react-doctor/prefer-use-effect-event
On React 19.2+, use useEffectEvent for non-reactive callbacks called only from an Effect
- Status
- Active
- Category
- State & Effects
- Assessment
- Evidence-required risk
- Required evidence
- source code
- Default configuration
- Enabled
- Default severity
- warn
Show technical metadata
- Scope
- All supported frameworks
- Active when
- React 19.2+
- Requirements
- react, react:19.2
- Tags
- test-noise
- Priority
- 52 (P2)
- Source
- oxlint-plugin-react-doctor
- Rule set
- oxlint-plugin-react-doctor 0.9.3 (prompt schema 2)
Validation prompt
Confirm the detector match and collect the required evidence before deciding whether an edit is warranted.
Confirm React 19.2+ and that the callback represents a non-reactive event called only from the local Effect. Do not apply this to normal UI event handlers, callbacks passed to children, or values whose changes should resubscribe the Effect.
Evidence boundary
The diagnostic proves only that the detector’s modeled source pattern matched. It does not prove runtime impact, product intent, rendered failure, or that one remediation is correct.
Establish the environment, repository policy, exceptions, and required rendered or runtime evidence before deciding the occurrence.
Record one outcome:
- Confirmed failure: The required evidence establishes the violation.
- Rejected: A documented exception or false-positive predicate applies.
- Needs evidence: Named evidence can still be collected.
- Unavailable: Required evidence cannot be collected in this run.
- Waived with evidence: An authorized, scoped exception applies to an established failure.
- Observation: The review records an optional tradeoff without claiming a defect.
A waiver records its scope, authority, evidence, and review condition. It is not a pass or false positive.
Default severity is registry metadata. Use the occurrence’s JSON severity after repository configuration when ordering real findings.
Fix prompt
Apply this candidate correction only after the required evidence confirms the risk.
Declare an Effect Event in the same component, call it only from the owning Effect's sub-handler, and remove only that non-reactive callback from the dependencies. Keep every value that should resubscribe the Effect. Do not pass the Effect Event elsewhere. See https://react.dev/reference/react/useEffectEvent
Repository-wide copy prompt
Use this repository-wide prompt only after validating each occurrence. For one occurrence, use the guidance above.
Show repository-wide prompt
Fix every confirmed react-doctor/prefer-use-effect-event diagnostic in the current repository.
Required change:
- Declare an Effect Event in the same component, call it only from the owning Effect's sub-handler, and remove only that non-reactive callback from the dependencies. Keep every value that should resubscribe the Effect. Do not pass the Effect Event elsewhere. See https://react.dev/reference/react/useEffectEvent.
Validation before editing:
Confirm React 19.2+ and that the callback represents a non-reactive event called only from the local Effect. Do not apply this to normal UI event handlers, callbacks passed to children, or values whose changes should resubscribe the Effect.
Constraints:
- Make the smallest change that fixes the root cause.
- Preserve behavior and interfaces unrelated to this diagnostic.
- Reuse existing project components, utilities, and conventions.
- Do not introduce render-phase side effects, render-phase state updates, or Hooks rule violations.
- Adapt identifiers and framework details instead of copying blindly.
- Do not disable the rule or suppress matching code.
- Confirm this rule is enabled for the project:
React 19.2+.
Assessment:
- Record detector evidence, applicability facts, assumptions, missing evidence, and the rule class for this occurrence.
- Return one outcome: Confirmed failure, Rejected, Needs evidence, Unavailable, Waived with evidence, or Observation.
- A waiver records the established failure, scope, authority, evidence, and review or expiry condition. It is not a pass or false positive.
Verification:
- Run focused tests for the changed behavior.
- Run React Doctor and confirm this diagnostic no longer appears from changed code.
- Run an unfiltered scan of the affected scope before claiming no cross-category regression.
- Report the files changed and any checks you could not run.