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Learn React Hooks

By : Daniel Bugl
Book Image

Learn React Hooks

By: Daniel Bugl

Overview of this book

React Hooks revolutionize how you manage state and effects in your web applications. They enable you to build simple and concise React.js applications, along with helping you avoid using wrapper components in your applications, making it easy to refactor code. This React book starts by introducing you to React Hooks. You will then get to grips with building a complex UI in React while keeping the code simple and extensible. Next, you will quickly move on to building your first applications with React Hooks. In the next few chapters, the book delves into various Hooks, including the State and Effect Hooks. After covering State Hooks and understanding how to use them, you will focus on the capabilities of Effect Hooks for adding advanced functionality to React apps. You will later explore the Suspense and Context APIs and how they can be used with Hooks. Toward the concluding chapters, you will learn how to integrate Redux and MobX with React Hooks. Finally, the book will help you develop the skill of migrating your existing React class components, and Redux and MobX web applications to Hooks. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed in building your own custom Hooks and effectively refactoring your React applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to Hooks
5
Section 2: Understanding Hooks in Depth
13
Section 3: Integration and Migration

Calling Hooks

Hooks should only be called in React function components or custom Hooks. They cannot be used in class components or regular JavaScript functions.

Hooks can be called at the top level of the following:

  • React function components
  • Custom Hooks (we are going to learn about creating custom Hooks in the next chapter)

As we can see, Hooks are mostly normal JavaScript functions, except that they rely on being defined in a React function component. Of course, custom Hooks that use other Hooks can be defined outside of React function components, but when using Hooks, we always need to make sure that we call them inside a React function component. Next, we are going to learn about the rules regarding the order of Hooks.