useEffect Clean-Up Function Executes After Component is Removed

This behavior has changes in React version 17.0.x.

Clean-up function should execute when the component unmounts, and I've noticed in React v.17 by the time cleanup function executes, React referenced elements are no longer available.

Working example with React v.16
Example with React v.17

Notice unmountSuccessful logs before divRef in React v.17 example.

This is the only relevant change I noticed from the changelog.

If the behavior of useEffect clean-up has changed it should be reflected on the docs.

Code Snippet:

const App = () => {
  const divRef = React.useRef(null);
  
  React.useEffect(() => {
    console.log('divRef ::', divRef.current)
    return function cleanUp() {
      console.log('[cleanUp] divRef ::', divRef.current)
    }
  }, [])
  return (
    <div ref={divRef}>
      Open Browser's Console For Output
    </div>
  )
}

ReactDOM.render(
  <App />,
  document.getElementById('root')
);

const unmountApp = () => {
  console.log('unmounting root...')
  const node = document.getElementById('root');
  const unmountSuccessful = ReactDOM.unmountComponentAtNode(node);
  console.log('unmountSuccessful ::', unmountSuccessful)
};

window.setTimeout(unmountApp, 1500);

Inizia dalla documentazione di React useEffect collegata nell’issue e confronta la formulazione relativa alla pulizia con il comportamento di React 17 mostrato nei due esempi CodePen. Leggi la pull request del changelog collegata per la modifica pertinente. Il lavoro è completato quando la documentazione spiega accuratamente quando viene eseguita la pulizia e se gli elementi referenziati rimangono disponibili.