Using MobX with Hooks

In the previous section, we learned how to use MobX with React. As we have seen, to be able to connect our components to the MobX store, we need to wrap them with the inject function, and in some cases, also with the observer function. Instead of using these higher-order components to wrap our components, since the release of v6 of mobx-react, we can also use Hooks to connect our components to the MobX store. We are now going to use MobX with Hooks!

Defining a store Hook

First of all, we have to define a Hook in order to access our own store. As we have learned before, MobX uses React Context to provide, and inject, state into various components. We can get the MobXProviderContext from mobx-react and...