Improving User Interactivity Using the useClickOutside Hooks
Explore how to create and use the useClickOutside custom hook in React to improve user interactivity by detecting clicks outside a component. This lesson guides you through modularizing logic using custom hooks to manage menu visibility and dismiss actions efficiently in your application.
Introduction to the useClickOutside hooks
In the internal implementation of the useClickOutside custom hook, the React useEffect hook is utilized.
In the Global Event Handling and Interactive UI lesson, we learned about a case where we can detect when a user clicks outside a component. This feature is pretty generic, and we want to take advantage of this in various parts of the project, such as dismissing a modal or tooltip—see the image below.
useClickOutside hook