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Published inOct 2023
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ISBN-139781803248448
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Olatunde Adedeji
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Olatunde Adedeji

Olatunde Adedeji is a seasoned web developer with over 15 years of experience in developing dynamic and detail-oriented enterprise web applications. Along with his extensive experience in developing, maintaining and supporting mobile, web and enterprise applications in Python, Go and JavaScript, Olatunde has consistently delivered excellent services, as team lead, team member or in consultancy capacity. Olatunde is proficient in application design and solution blueprinting; including mastery of application development tools such as: Flask, Django, Gin, React, and NodeJS. When not weaving the web and playing chess, Olatunde spends time with his wife, Adedoyin and two daughters, Mitchelle and Mabel.
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Using useState to develop stateful components

The useState Hook allows you to manage state in React applications. Function components rely on the useState Hook to add state variables to them. State is an object in React that can hold data information for use in React components. When you make a change to existing data, that change is stored as a state.

This is how it works: you pass an initial state property to useState(), which then returns a variable with the current state value and a function to update this value. The following is the syntax of the useState Hook:

const [state, stateUpdater] = useState(initialState);

Let’s see a simplistic use case of how useState works:

import React, {useState} from 'react';const App = () => {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);
  const handleIncrementByTen = () => {
    setCount(count + 10);
  };
  const handleDecrementByTen = () => {
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Olatunde Adedeji is a seasoned web developer with over 15 years of experience in developing dynamic and detail-oriented enterprise web applications. Along with his extensive experience in developing, maintaining and supporting mobile, web and enterprise applications in Python, Go and JavaScript, Olatunde has consistently delivered excellent services, as team lead, team member or in consultancy capacity. Olatunde is proficient in application design and solution blueprinting; including mastery of application development tools such as: Flask, Django, Gin, React, and NodeJS. When not weaving the web and playing chess, Olatunde spends time with his wife, Adedoyin and two daughters, Mitchelle and Mabel.
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