Dealing with Memory Leaks in JavaScript: Closures
Recently, I stumbled upon a couple of insightful blog posts that delve into a subtle yet significant issue in JavaScript: memory leaks caused by nested functions and closures. This topic is crucial, if you’re a React developer as it explains the drawbacks in useCallback hooks. Original example I was reading Jake Archibald’s post where he discusses how nested functions can inadvertently retain references, leading to memory leaks. The following code snippet illustrates this scenario:...