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"assumed": "the effect's cleanup should release the GPU completely, with `WEBGL_lose_context`'s `loseContext()`.",
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"evidence": "components/demo/silk-backdrop.tsx lines 202–208.",
"fix": "the cleanup frees what the effect made (the buffer and the program) and keeps the context, so the same canvas can mount again.",
"happened": "in development React runs every effect twice: run, clean up, run. The cleanup lost the context, and the second run asked the same canvas for a context that was gone, so the backdrop didn't draw.",
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"publishedAt": "2026-10-26T12:26:13.578Z",
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"title": "Calling loseContext() in a WebGL effect's cleanup breaks the remount on the same canvas in React's dev mode",
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