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Designing React Hooks the Right Way

By : Fang Jin
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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)

Who this book is for

The ideal reader of this book is an engineer who has been writing JavaScript for a few years but doesn't necessarily have experience with React and/or the function component. For readers with less JavaScript experience, we include a live playground via CodePen so that you can experiment with each topic in no time.

If you do have experience with React, or even Hooks, that's fine; this book will show you how Hooks are implemented within the function component. Moreover, a stripped-down version of the React source code pertaining to each Hook is also included in each chapter, so you will get a deeper understanding if you are an experienced React programmer.