vide/docs/api/reactivity-utility.md
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# Reactivity API: Utility
## cleanup()
Runs a callback anytime a function scope is re-ran.
- **Type**
```lua
function cleanup(callback: () -> ())
```
- **Details**
The primary purpose of this function is to provide a means of cleaning up
side effects caused by source updates and `watch()` updates.
The stack is inspected to find the function that calls `cleanup()`. The
callback passed is called anytime the caller is re-ran, and when the caller
finally garbage collects.
::: warning
Only one `cleanup()` call is allowed per function scope.
:::
- **Example**
```lua
local data = source(1)
watch(function()
local label = create "TextLabel" { Text = data() }
cleanup(function()
label:Destroy()
end)
end)
```
```lua
local data = source(1)
derive(function()
local label = create "TextLabel" { Text = data() }
cleanup(function()
label:Destroy()
end)
return label
end)
```
## untrack()
Gets the value of a source without reactively tracking it.
- **Type**
```lua
function untrack<T>(source: () -> T): T
```
- **Details**
Updates made to a source passed to `untrack()` will not cause updates to
anything depending on that source.
- **Example**
```lua
local a = source(0)
local b = source(0)
local sum = derive(function()
return a() + untrack(b)
end)
print(sum()) -- 0
b(1)
print(sum()) -- 0
a(1)
print(sum()) -- 2
```