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Designing React Hooks the Right Way

By : Fang Jin
Book Image

Designing React Hooks the Right Way

By: Fang Jin

Overview of this book

React hook creates a unique solution for using states in function components to orchestrate UI communication. They provide you with an easy interface to write custom data management solutions with low development and maintenance costs. Understanding how Hooks are designed enables you to use them more effectively, and this book helps you to do just that. This book starts with a custom-crafted solution to reveal why Hooks are needed in the first place. You will learn about the React engine and discover how each built-in Hook can manage a persistent value by hooking into it. You will walk through the design and implementation of each hook with code so that you gain a solid understanding. Finally, you'll get to grips with each Hook's pitfalls and find out how to effectively overcome them. By the end of this React book, you'll have gained the confidence to build and write Hooks for developing functional and efficient web applications at scale.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Technical requirements

Before beginning, I would like you to know about the timeline sketch:

|--x---x---x-x--x--x------> user event

The timeline sketch is a unique illustrative chart type that displays a series of events during a period. The left bar (|) stands for the time origin, representing the first update. The horizontal dash (-) moves with the time from left to right with an arrow > at the end. Each letter or number, such as x , indicates one event that happened in this timeline. In this book, we will use the timeline sketch to better understand a situation when multiple things happen simultaneously along the timeline.