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React•Hooks and State Management

React Hooks

Hooks allow functions to have access to state and other React features without using classes. They provide a more direct API to React concepts like props, state, context, refs, and lifecycle.

What is a Hook?

Hooks are functions that let you "hook into" React state and lifecycle features from functional components.

Example:

Here is an example of a Hook. Don't worry if it doesn't make sense. We will go into more detail in the next section.

import { useState } from 'react';
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
function FavoriteColor() {
const [color, setColor] = useState("red");
return (

<>

<h1>My favorite color is {color}!</h1>
<button type="button"
onClick={() => setColor("blue")}

>Blue</button> <button type="button"

onClick={() => setColor("red")}

>Red</button> <button type="button"

onClick={() => setColor("pink")}

>Pink</button> <button type="button"

onClick={() => setColor("green")}

>Green</button> </>

);
}

createRoot(document.getElementById('root')).render( <FavoriteColor />

);

Run

Example »

You must import

Hooks from react.

Here we are using the useState

Hook to keep track of the application state. State generally refers to application data or properties that need to be tracked.

Hook Rules

There are 3 rules for hooks: Hooks can only be called inside React function components. Hooks can only be called at the top level of a component.

Hooks cannot be conditional

Note:

Hooks will not work in React class components.

Custom Hooks

If you have stateful logic that needs to be reused in several components, you can build your own custom Hooks.

We'll go into more detail in the

Custom Hooks section.

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React useState Hook