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React useIsomorphicLayoutEffect: Fix the SSR useLayoutEffect Warning (2026)
You added a useLayoutEffect to measure a tooltip, shipped it, and the next time your Next.js (or Remix, or Gatsby) dev server rendered a page on the server, the console lit up:
Warning: useLayoutEffect does nothing on the server, because its effect cannot
be encoded into the server renderer's output format. This will lead to a
mismatch between the initial, non-hydrated UI and the intended UI. To avoid
this, useLayoutEffect should only be used in components that render exclusively
on th...
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