⚠️ 【Draft – Pending Review】 Stop writing useEffect for data fetching. Use Request Strategies instead. I've been a React developer for about three years. And for most of that time, I wrote data fetching the same way everyone else did: useEffect (() => { fetch ( ' /api/users ' ) . then ( res => res . json ()) . then ( setData ) . catch ( setError ) . finally (() => setLoading ( false )); }, []); Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode It works. But it's not good. Every list page. Every search box. Every filter. Same pattern. And the code kept growing — loading states, error handling, debounce timers, race condition flags. A simple user list with search would easily hit 80 lines of boilerplate. Then I found alova , and I realized: I'd been fighting problems that didn't need to exist.…