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Learn React Hooks

By : Daniel Bugl
Book Image

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
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Section 1: Introduction to Hooks
5
Section 2: Understanding Hooks in Depth
13
Section 3: Integration and Migration

Implementing static components

Before we start adding state via Hooks to our blog application, we are going to model the basic features of our application as static React components. Doing this means that we have to deal with the static view structure of our application.

It makes sense to deal with the static structure first, so as to avoid having to move dynamic code to different components later on. Furthermore, it is easier to deal only with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and CSS first—helping us to get started with projects quickly. Then, we can move on to implementing dynamic code and handling state.

Doing this step by step, instead of implementing everything at once, helps us to quickly get started with new projects without having to think about too much at once, and lets us avoid having to restructure projects later!

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