Breaking Down the Walls: Rescue Your SPA From Complete Freeze

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React page frozen solid? Here’s how a single Chrome DevTools feature helped trace an infinite loop hidden deep in Redux selectors.
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Chrome’s Pause Script Execution can be used to freeze a Single Page App (SPA) using a hidden infinite loop deep inside a Redux selector. The root cause of the freeze is a loop that never ends.