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Carlos Santana Roldán
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Carlos Santana Roldán is a senior web developer with more than 15 years of experience. Currently, he is working as a Principal Engineer at APM Music. He is the founder of JS Education, where he teaches people web technologies such as React, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
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New Hooks

In React 18, a set of innovative hooks has been introduced, which provide enhanced techniques for managing IDs, transitions, and optimizing performance. These hooks include useId, useTransition, useDeferredValue, and useInsertionEffect.

useId

useId is a new built-in hook in React 18 that can be used to generate a unique ID. This can be useful in scenarios where you need to generate unique identifiers for elements in a React component, for example, when building forms.

Here’s an example of how you can use useId to generate a unique ID:

import { useId } from 'react'
const MyComponent = () => {
  const id = useId()
  return <div id={id}>Hello, world!</div>
}

In this example, we use the useId hook to generate a unique ID, which we then use as the id attribute of a <div> element.

useId generates a unique ID that is guaranteed to be different on each render. It takes an optional parameter that can be used to specify...

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Carlos Santana Roldán

Carlos Santana Roldán is a senior web developer with more than 15 years of experience. Currently, he is working as a Principal Engineer at APM Music. He is the founder of JS Education, where he teaches people web technologies such as React, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
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