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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)

Test driving useContext

Context is fun to use and has quite a few common applications. Consider a site with a user logo displayed at the top-right corner of the screen:

Figure 7.6 – An application with App, Header, and Logo

The site is created with an App component, containing Header and Main. And in turn, Header contains Logo, and Site contains Greeting. App, Header, and Logo are defined as follows:

function App({ initialUser }) {
  const user = initialUser
  return (
    <div>
      <Header user={user} />
      <Main user={user} />
    </div>
  )
}
const Header = ({ user }) => {
  return <Logo user={user} />
}
const Logo = ({ user }) => {
  return (
    <div>
      <img url={ user.imageUrl } />
 ...