Removing a listener from firestorm

In react, if you attach a listener for realtime updates when a component mounts, you'd need to remove it when the component amounts.

Failing to do so could raise an error if you delete that item and there's a listener that is still associated with it.

let unsub = db.collection('cities').onSnapshot(() => {
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});
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// ...
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// Stop listening for changes
unsub();

​https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/listen#detach_a_listener​

In React hooks

if using React hooks, you use useEffect and return a function to do the clean up. See the React docs for more details on the equivalent syntax to componentWillUnmount https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-effect.html#example-using-hooks-1​