What is the good practice way to prevent a useEffect from triggering on initial render?

Question

My current solution involves an extra useState which holds a boolean variable to signal whether it is the initial render of the component or not.

This does not seem like good practice.

What is the standard way to archive this?

I use react hooks, not classes.

  const [init_render, set_init_render] = useState(true);
 
  useEffect(() => {
    if (!init_render) {
      // do stuff
    }
  }, [dependency]);