React Hook "useEffect" is called conditionally

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I couldn't find the use case in the above code. If you need the effect to run when the return value of firebase.getCurrentUsername() changes, you might want to use it outside the if condition like:

useEffect(() => {
    firebase.getCurrentUserQuote().then(setQuote)
}, [firebase.getCurrentUsername()]);

Your code, after an if statement that contains return, is equivalent to an else branch:

if(!firebase.getCurrentUsername()) {
    ...
    return null
} else {
    useEffect(...)
    ...
}

Which means that it's executed conditionally (only when the return is NOT executed).

To fix:

useEffect(() => {
  if(firebase.getCurrentUsername()) {
    firebase.getCurrentUserQuote().then(setQuote)
  }
}, [firebase.getCurrentUsername(), firebase.getCurrentUserQuote()])

if(!firebase.getCurrentUsername()) {
  ...
  return null
}