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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we started to craft a new thing called a state inside the function component. The state is persistent across updates and can be used to request a new update, listen to a value change, as well as perform a task at the mount. Later, we applied the state we developed to a single-page application to draft a simplified Nav with a route system. In the end, we briefly studied how states work for UI under React.

In the next chapter, we will introduce you to what a React hook is and how this persistent state is designed under the React engine.