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Managing States using Hooks

Explore managing states in React Native applications using Hooks. Understand how useState handles local state, useContext avoids prop drilling for global state, and useReducer separates logic for clearer code structure in complex state scenarios.

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React Native provides us with various Hooks to manage states locally and globally. Let’s briefly look at each of these Hooks:

useState

The useState Hook enables us to manage states locally. It helps us to maintain and track the internal state of functional components. We should use the useState Hook when we want to track individual values. These values could be integers, strings, booleans, arrays, objects, etc. The useState Hook only takes one argument, which is the value of the initial state, and returns two items, i.e., the current state value and a function to update the current state value. The ...