It's common to encounter the following warning when working with useEffect() hook in React:

React Hook useEffect has missing dependencies: 'findSelected', 'list', and 'selected'. Either include them or remove the dependency array.

It's not a big deal since the code still works fine and in this case, I only wanted the code within the useEffect hook to run when the option state changes and that's why option is the only item in the dependency array.

But in order for both React and I to be happy, I have to add all the state variables and functions used in the hook to the dependency array but that's bound to lead to some errors. So, what do we do?

That's where useCallback comes in.

Let's get ChatGPT to show us an example:

Here is an example of how to use the useCallback hook to fix a "missing dependencies" warning in a useEffect hook:

import { useState, useEffect, useCallback } from 'react';

function MyComponent() {
  const [data, setData] = useState([]);
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

  // create a callback function that only changes when count changes
  const fetchData = useCallback(() => {
    fetch(`http://my-api/data?count=${count}`)
      .then(response => response.json())
      .then(data => setData(data));
  }, [count]);

  useEffect(() => {
    fetchData();
  }, [fetchData]);

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>Update</button>
      <ul>
        {data.map(item => (
          <li key={item.id}>{item.name}</li>
        ))}
      </ul>
    </div>
  );
}

In this example, the useEffect hook is dependent on the fetchData callback function, which is only recreated when the count state changes. This means that when the count state is updated, the useEffect hook will re-run and fetch new data with the updated count value.

It's important to note that in the above example, fetchData callback will be recreated everytime count changes. If you have any other dependency in fetchData callback then you need to add them in the dependency array of useCallback hook as well.