Using React’s useEffect Hook with lifecycle methods

React's component lifecycle and its associated methods are fundamental to managing state and behavior in React applications. This article explores the different stages of the React component lifecycle, including mounting, updating, and unmounting, and discusses how lifecycle methods like `componentDidMount`, `shouldComponentUpdate`, `componentDidUpdate`, and `componentWillUnmount` function within these stages. It also addresses the deprecation of certain lifecycle methods in React version 16.3.0 due to the introduction of async rendering, which made some practices unsafe. With the advent of React Hooks, specifically the `useEffect` Hook, developers can now emulate these lifecycle methods in functional components, allowing for side effects management without the need to rely on class components. The useEffect Hook is versatile and can be configured to mimic the behavior of various lifecycle methods by passing dependencies. This shift towards functional components with Hooks enables more streamlined and maintainable React applications, reducing the necessity for class components and promoting the migration to newer React paradigms.