Simulate componentDidMount with a useEffect

If you want to simulate a componentDidMount class method inside your functional component, you can use the useEffect hook thusly:

const MyFunctionalComponent = () => {
   useEffect(() => {
   
     // any code here is run once 
     
   }, []); 
   
   // the empty array will be the same each 
   // time the component is called, so the useEffect
   // will not run in calls subsequent to the first
   
   return <div>Foo</div>;
}

ht: @greis