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Re:PSA: React 18 calls code twice in strict dev mode to dete... by jitl on Sunday April 10, 2022 @08:29PM (#30983221)
It doesn't log things twice, because DevTools replaces `console.log` and similar with no-op versions when they re-play the render. But it does call your component more times than you expect to power the DevTools hook inspector and other features.

Here's the code that turns off `console.log`: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/b8cfda15e1232554487c7...

Re:PSA: React 18 calls code twice in strict dev mode to dete... by joshribakoff on Sunday April 10, 2022 @10:51PM (#30984044)
I haven’t seen anything about devtools altering runtime semantics but I may be wrong, that is something I think I disagree with because of the possibility to have bugs that go away when trying to debug