# `react-doctor/no-pass-live-state-to-parent`

Disallow passing live state to parents in an effect.

- **Status:** Active
- **Category:** Bugs
- **Assessment:** Evidence-required risk
- **Required evidence:** source code
- **Default configuration:** Enabled
- **Default severity:** warn
- **Scope:** All supported frameworks
- **Active when:** React projects
- **Requirements:** react
- **Tags:** test-noise
- **Priority:** 50 (P2)
- **Source:** oxlint-plugin-react-doctor
- **Rule set:** oxlint-plugin-react-doctor 0.9.3 (prompt schema 2)
- **Documentation:** [Official documentation](https://react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect#notifying-parent-components-about-state-changes)

## Validation prompt

Confirm the detector match and collect the required evidence before deciding whether an edit is warranted.

Fires on a useEffect that synchronously calls a prop function with state in its arguments (useEffect(() => onChange(value), [value])). Confirm the parent is intended to own that value and needs every change synchronously reflected. Uncontrolled forms, editors, and composite widgets may intentionally own draft or interaction state and publish notifications; their ownership and notification timing are not disproved by this syntax alone. Custom hooks use a separate message that suggests returning the value from the hook rather than forwarding.

## Evidence boundary

The diagnostic proves only that the detector's modeled source pattern matched. It does not prove runtime impact, product intent, rendered failure, or that one remediation is correct.

Establish the environment, explicit repository policy, relevant exceptions, and required rendered or runtime evidence before deciding the occurrence. This page’s Assessment and Required evidence fields define the review contract.

Default severity is registry metadata. Use the occurrence's JSON severity after repository configuration when ordering real findings.

Record one outcome:

- **Confirmed failure:** The required evidence establishes the violation.
- **Rejected:** A documented exception or false-positive predicate applies.
- **Needs evidence:** Named evidence can still be collected.
- **Unavailable:** Required evidence cannot be collected in this run.
- **Waived with evidence:** An authorized, scoped exception applies to an established failure.
- **Observation:** The review records an optional tradeoff without claiming a defect.

A waiver records its scope, authority, evidence, and review or expiry condition. It is not a pass or false positive.

## Fix prompt

Apply this candidate correction only after the required evidence confirms the risk.

When the parent should own the source of truth, lift the state only to that nearest owner and pass the value plus event callback down; notify from the event that changes it rather than from an Effect. If a reusable custom hook computes the value, return it to the caller. Keep local draft or interaction state when the child intentionally owns it, and preserve the documented notification timing instead of forcing a controlled API. See https://react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect#notifying-parent-components-about-state-changes

## Repository-wide copy prompt

Use this only for a repository-wide pass after validating each occurrence. For one occurrence, use the occurrence-level guidance above.

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Fix every confirmed `react-doctor/no-pass-live-state-to-parent` diagnostic in the current repository.

Required change:
- When the parent should own the source of truth, lift the state only to that nearest owner and pass the value plus event callback down; notify from the event that changes it rather than from an Effect. If a reusable custom hook computes the value, return it to the caller. Keep local draft or interaction state when the child intentionally owns it, and preserve the documented notification timing instead of forcing a controlled API. See https://react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect#notifying-parent-components-about-state-changes.

Validation before editing:
Fires on a useEffect that synchronously calls a prop function with state in its arguments (useEffect(() => onChange(value), [value])). Confirm the parent is intended to own that value and needs every change synchronously reflected. Uncontrolled forms, editors, and composite widgets may intentionally own draft or interaction state and publish notifications; their ownership and notification timing are not disproved by this syntax alone. Custom hooks use a separate message that suggests returning the value from the hook rather than forwarding.

Constraints:
- Make the smallest change that fixes the root cause.
- Preserve behavior and interfaces unrelated to this diagnostic.
- Reuse existing project components, utilities, and conventions.
- Do not introduce render-phase side effects, render-phase state updates, or Hooks rule violations.
- Adapt identifiers and framework details instead of copying blindly.
- Do not disable the rule or suppress matching code.
- Confirm this rule is enabled for the project: `React projects`.

Assessment:
- Record detector evidence, applicability facts, assumptions, missing evidence, and the rule class for this occurrence.
- Return one outcome: Confirmed failure, Rejected, Needs evidence, Unavailable, Waived with evidence, or Observation.
- A waiver records the established failure, scope, authority, evidence, and review or expiry condition. It is not a pass or false positive.

Verification:
- Run focused tests for the changed behavior.
- Run React Doctor and confirm this diagnostic no longer appears from changed code.
- Run an unfiltered scan of the affected scope before claiming no cross-category regression.
- Report the files changed and any checks you could not run.
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