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JS logging & error handling
JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development
Is Your React Component Doing a Lot of Work in the Background?
If you have a web server, and you're handling your request in a promise, then, say, the incoming request like times out, or the client dis connects. Then you might want to use the abort controller to fire a signal down to all the promises in that handler to tell them "don't waste any more resources handling this request" It can also be useful for react components when they mount but don't have all their state immediately. So what you probably want to do is have a hook that creates an abort signal, right? And then component unmounts. The umount Hook will basically fire off the abort signal and kill all those promises that respond by mounting that component.
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