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Handling 'Race Conditions' in Async Watchers

Updated May 4, 2026

Short answer

Race conditions occur when an older async request resolves after a newer one; use the onCleanup callback in watch to cancel stale requests.

Deep explanation

When watching an ID and fetching data, if the ID changes rapidly (ID 1 -> ID 2), the fetch for ID 1 might finish after ID 2. Vue's watch and watchEffect provide a third argument onCleanup. You can use this to set a flag or abort an AbortController so that only the most recent request's result is applied to the state.

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