React useEffect calls API too many time, How can I limit the API call to only once when my component renders?

Question

I am calling a get API in useEffect hook, to get the data before component mounts, but it's calling the API to many time and I am getting an error "To many API calls".

const [total, setTotal] = useState(0);
const [message, setMessage] = useState('');

useEffect(() => {
    covidApi.getData({url:'/totals'})
    .then((response) => {
        setTotal(response.data[0]);
        setMessage('');
        console.log(response.data);
    })
    .catch((error) => {
        setMessage("No data found");
        console.log(error);
    })
});

Output:

Please let me know is it the best way to get data from API before your component renders using useEffect hook.

Answer 1

Put a [] after the function in useEffect like this:

useEffect(() => {
    covidApi.getData({url:'/totals'})
    .then((response) => {
        setTotal(response.data[0]);
        setMessage('');
        console.log(response.data);
    })
    .catch((error) => {
        setMessage("No data found");
        console.log(error);
    })
}, []);

This will call the API only once.