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Learn React Hooks

You're reading from   Learn React Hooks Build and refactor modern React.js applications using Hooks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838641443
Length 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Bugl Daniel Bugl
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Hooks
2. Introducing React and React Hooks FREE CHAPTER 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

Extracting custom Hooks

After getting a good grasp on the concept of Hooks by learning about the State and Effect Hooks, community Hooks, and the rules of Hooks, we are now going to build our own Hooks. We start by extracting custom Hooks from existing functionalities of our blog application. Usually, it makes the most sense to first write the component, and then later extract a custom Hook from it if we notice that we use similar code across multiple components. Doing so avoids prematurely defining custom Hooks and making our project unnecessarily complex.

We are going to extract the following Hooks in this section:

  • A useTheme Hook
  • The useUserState and usePostsState Hooks
  • A useDispatch Hook
  • API Hooks
  • A useDebouncedUndo Hook

Creating a useTheme Hook

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