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Designing React Hooks the Right Way

By : Fang Jin
Book Image

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

We learned a really cool concept in this chapter, that is, a context. First, we got to know what is a context under React. We then dug deeper into the context design as well as how to consume it with a useContext hook. We then went through a context test drive by managing a user object for a site and further learned two more applications of applying contexts to the Theme and the Table.

In the next chapter, we will get into our next hook in the React family and see how a ref can be used to hide private matters away from the engine.