What is a memory leak in react native –

Here we are going to discuss the “”How to handle memory leak in react native“, when we start the API integration in our app, then we all find the a common issue every time which is ” Warning: Can’t perform a React state update on an unmounted component. This is a no-op, but it indicates a memory leak in your application. To fix, cancel all subscriptions and asynchronous tasks in the componentWillUnmount method“.

Issue is like –

Intro: 

This is happening because of memory leak, when we go to another screen then it must stop API calling on this page, so let’s start how to handle this issue.

Step1: 

Firstly we need to declare a global variable for unsubscribe API calling, which is boolean type.

_isUnsubscribeApi = false;

Step2: 

Now we make this variable true in componentDidMount then place the API call, always prefer to call API at componentDidMount because componentWillMount removed.

componentDidMount() {
  this._isUnsubscribeApi= true;
   if (this._isUnsubscribeApi == true) {
    setTimeout(() => {
     this.gettingQuestionsWithAnswers();//this is a function where we 
     call API
    }, 100);
   }
  }
}

Step3: 

Make this variable false in unmount lifecycle, so it calls only that page.

componentWillUnmount() {
 this._isUnsubscribeApi= false;
}

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Neha Dwivedi

Hi, I am a professional Ionic and React Native Pixel Perfect App Designer and Developer, with expertise in Client Communication, Bug Fixing, Third Party Lib, Version Control Tools, Requirement Understanding, and managing teams, I have 6+ years of experience in the same domain as well as in Codeigniter, JS, IoT, and more than 10 other languages. For the last 6+ years, not a single day went without design/development.

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