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Published inOct 2019
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Daniel Bugl
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Daniel Bugl is a CEO, Software Architect and Full Stack Developer for his company TouchLay, developing a platform for interactive presentations. He also consults large multinational enterprises on the development and integration of React frontends with various backend systems, including the integration of legacy systems, and helps out with the setup and development of such projects. He has a bachelor's degree in business informatics and a master's degree in data science.
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Alternative Hook APIs

Sometimes, it would be nice to define Hooks conditionally or in loops, but why did the React team decide to implement Hooks like this? What are the alternatives? Let's go through a few of them.

Named Hooks

We could give each Hook a name and then store the Hooks in an object instead of an array. However, this would not make for a nice API, and we would also always have to think of coming up with unique names for Hooks:

// NOTE: Not the actual React Hook API
const [ name, setName ] = useState('nameHook', '')

Furthermore, what would happen when the conditional is set to false, or an item is removed from the loop? Would we clear the Hook state? If we do not clear the Hook state, we...

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Daniel Bugl

Daniel Bugl is a CEO, Software Architect and Full Stack Developer for his company TouchLay, developing a platform for interactive presentations. He also consults large multinational enterprises on the development and integration of React frontends with various backend systems, including the integration of legacy systems, and helps out with the setup and development of such projects. He has a bachelor's degree in business informatics and a master's degree in data science.
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