Troubleshooting React form state issues: A step-by-step guide to controlled components and caching

I recently worked on a backend edit page where users would change the price, but it would revert to the old value after saving. While it looked like the API wasn't saving the data, it was actually a conflict between the frontend form state and the cache. My troubleshooting process started by opening React DevTools to check if the input was a controlled component, then logging the submit payload…