Better error message when useEffect is called with no parameters

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Feature

What is the current behavior?

Suppose you give an undefined object or forget to provide parameters to useEffect:

const App = () => {
    React.useEffect();
    return "";
};

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('container'));

On JSFiddle (https://jsfiddle.net/g39javzq), this error stack is logged:

Uncaught TypeError: create is not a function
    at commitHookEffectList (react-dom.development.js:17372)
    at commitPassiveHookEffects (react-dom.development.js:17396)
    at HTMLUnknownElement.callCallback (react-dom.development.js:143)
    at Object.invokeGuardedCallbackDev (react-dom.development.js:193)
    at invokeGuardedCallback (react-dom.development.js:250)
    at commitPassiveEffects (react-dom.development.js:18863)
    at wrapped (react.development.js:1353)
    at flushFirstCallback (react.development.js:587)
    at flushWork (react.development.js:699)
    at MessagePort.channel.port1.onmessage (react.development.js:1093)

...though on a local project in React 16.8.4, this stack is logged:

Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not iterable (cannot read property Symbol(Symbol.iterator))
    at _iterableToArrayLimit (my-project.chunk.js:123)
    at _slicedToArray (my-project.chunk.js:456)
    at MyComponent (myFile.js:7)

What is the expected behavior?

Neither of these were useful during the 5 minutes it took to find the culprit useEffect that should have been a useState.

In development, we check for an undefined deps argument in useEffect and give a better warning?

Which versions of React, and which browser / OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of React?

React 16.8.4, Chrome on Mac.

[gaearon]

Sure, want to send a PR?

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[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Will do this thing soon! I don't really have the time to look into React development now. Up for grabs!

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