Summary

This chapter introduced us to why hooks are better in a lot of ways than prior methods. The activity demonstrated how much easier it is to create an app using Hooks, and how much simpler it is to read and reason about what it actually does.

Over the course of this chapter, we have seen how React Hooks can allow us to write cleaner, more manageable code as our applications expand in complexity. The introduction of hooks allows us to think outside of classes and, even more importantly, allows us to throw away complex mental models of state management passing through multiple separate parent and child components.

In the next chapters, we are going to concentrate on effects, how to further use hooks, what basic hooks React provides, and how we can put them together.