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Reviewing React hooks

Explore key React hooks like useState, useEffect, useMemo, and useContext to manage state and side effects effectively. Understand how to create custom hooks by combining built-in hooks, enabling reusable logic and cleaner code structure in your React projects.

Overview of React hooks

We have seen quite a few hooks provided by React. Let's take a moment to review what we have learned so far:

  • Update a state with the useState hook.useState_hook

  • Handle a side effect with the useEffect hook.useEffect_hook

  • Reuse the last value with the useMemo hook.useMemo_Hook

  • Update an area with the useContext hook.useContext_Hook

  • Hide stuff from display with the useRef hook.useRef_Hook

Beyond explored hooks

The preceding hooks aren't the entire React collection of hooks. In fact, React has more than a dozen built-in hooks; to name some others: useCallback, useLayoutEffect, useTransition, and useDeferredValue, ...