React UseState hook causing infinite loop - reactjs

Question

I am using ReactJs to grab an RSS news feed every 5 seconds to convert it into a JSON string to render it on the webpage. I am using both useEffect and useState hook for this purpose as I am passing the JSON string in the useState hook variable, however. It kind of works but it produces an infinite loop. I have searched through the fixes provided in stack overflow but I couldn't find the exact problem. Here is my code snippet.'
import React, {useEffect, useState} from 'react';
import Carousel from 'react-bootstrap/Carousel';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import {getNews} from "../../actions/news";
import Parser from 'rss-parser';
const NewsCarousel = ({getNews, news: {news, loading} }) => {
const [getFeed, setFeed] = useState({
feed: ''
});
useEffect(() => {
const interval = setInterval(() => {
getNews();
}, 5000);
return () => clearInterval(interval);
}, [getNews]);
const { feed } = getFeed;
const newsFeed = feed => setFeed({ ...getFeed, feed: feed });
let parser = new Parser();
parser.parseString(news, function(err, feed){
if (!err) {
newsFeed(feed);
} else {
console.log(err);
}
});
console.log(feed);
return (
<div className="dark-overlay">
</div>
);
};
NewsCarousel.propTypes = {
getNews: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
news: PropTypes.object.isRequired
};
const mapStateToProps = state => ({
news: state.news
});
export default connect(mapStateToProps, {getNews}) (NewsCarousel);
Its when I console.log my feed variable that's when I see in the console the infinite logs.
Below is my getNews Action
import axios from 'axios';
import { GET_NEWS, NEWS_FAIL } from "./types";
export const getNews = () => async dispatch => {
try{
const res = await axios.get('https://www.cbc.ca/cmlink/rss-
topstories');
dispatch({
type: GET_NEWS,
payload: res.data
})
} catch(err) {
dispatch({
type: NEWS_FAIL,
payload: { msg: err}
})
}
};

Answer 1

You need to parse your news only when there is a change in new props. Add another useEffect with news as a dependency so it will be called when the news changes and then update your state there.
import React, {useEffect, useState} from 'react';
import Carousel from 'react-bootstrap/Carousel';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import {getNews} from "../../actions/news";
import Parser from 'rss-parser';
const NewsCarousel = ({getNews, news: {news, loading} }) => {
const [getFeed, setFeed] = useState({
feed: ''
});
useEffect(() => {
const interval = setInterval(() => {
getNews();
}, 5000);
return () => clearInterval(interval);
}, [getNews]);
useEffect(() => {
const newsFeed = feed => setFeed({ ...getFeed, feed: feed });
const parser = new Parser();
parser.parseString(news, function(err, feed){
if (!err) {
newsFeed(feed);
} else {
console.log(err);
}
});
}, [news]);
return (
<div className="dark-overlay">
</div>
);
};
NewsCarousel.propTypes = {
getNews: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
news: PropTypes.object.isRequired
};
const mapStateToProps = state => ({
news: state.news
});
export default connect(mapStateToProps, {getNews}) (NewsCarousel);