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Learn React Hooks

By : Daniel Bugl
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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

Solving common problems with Hooks

As we found out, implementing Hooks with the official API also has its own trade-offs and limitations. We are now going to learn how to overcome these common problems, which stem from the limitations of React Hooks.

We will take a look at solutions that can be used to overcome these two problems:

  • Solving conditional Hooks
  • Solving Hooks in loops

Solving conditional Hooks

So, how do we implement conditional Hooks? Instead of making the Hook conditional, we can always define the Hook and use it whenever we need it. If this is not an option, we need to split up our components, which is usually better anyway!

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