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What is the difference between watch and watchEffect?

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Compare watch and watchEffect.

watchwatcheffect
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watch observes specific sources and gives you old and new values, running lazily (only on change). watchEffect runs immediately and re-runs whenever any reactive dependency it reads changes, auto-tracking them — handy but less explicit about what triggers it.

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