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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)

Questions and answers

Here are some questions and answers to refresh your knowledge:

  1. What is a function component?

    A function component is a function taking props as its input argument and returning elements. For an App component, we can display it by using its instance form, <App />. To build an application, it's about putting a component under another component as a child and refining this process until we end up with a tree of components.

  2. How do you write a function component?

    The way to become adept at writing function components is quite similar to writing functions. Ask yourself what the props specification of the component is and what is returned for display. In a typical application, half of the components are designed for business requirements, but the other half normally comes from code refactoring. A study of Functional Programming (FP) can generally benefit you and take your UI skills to the next level.