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Learn React Hooks

You're reading from  Learn React Hooks

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838641443
Pages 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Bugl Daniel Bugl
Profile icon Daniel Bugl

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Hooks
2. Introducing React and React Hooks 3. Using the State Hook 4. Writing Your First Application with React Hooks 5. Section 2: Understanding Hooks in Depth
6. Using the Reducer and Effect Hooks 7. Implementing React Context 8. Implementing Requests and React Suspense 9. Using Hooks for Routing 10. Using Community Hooks 11. Rules of Hooks 12. Building Your Own Hooks 13. Section 3: Integration and Migration
14. Migrating from React Class Components 15. Redux and Hooks 16. MobX and Hooks 17. Assessments 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

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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