Can someone explain to me why after upgrading to compose stable this code would fire the sideeffect ...

# compose

[Abhishek Dewan]

Can someone explain to me why after upgrading to compose stable this code would fire the sideeffect twice after launching the app

SideEffect {
        viewModel.getPlatforms()
    }

In other words viewModel.getPlatforms fires twice where as it didn’t use to be the case before. Perhaps I was misusing the api before

[Oleksii Yerastov]

SideEffect is triggered every time recomposition of your composable happens. If you want to run some code only once during lifetime of your composable use LaunchedEffect instead.

[Abhishek Dewan]

Ahh I thought as much. I never ran into the problem before so assumed I was using it correctly. Thanks for letting me know

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

or DisposableEffect if you don’t need a coroutine