garbage/memory collection

[curist]

If a component have setInterval to update itself's state,
it won't be garbage collected.
As far as I know, this is related to how javascript handle an object's life cycle,
so... any insight on this?

demo gist: https://gist.github.com/curist/10a90d741277369196e7

[andreypopp]

Start timer in componentDidMount as componentWillMount is not symmetric to componentWillUnmount (the former will be executed on server while the latter won't).

[andreypopp]

P.S. This is not (directly) related to garbage collection but to how React lifecycle works.

[curist]

ah, thx for the quick reply! Thought I should wrap things in if(!isServer). Using componentDidMount sure be much better!

BTW, thanks so much for this handy library +1