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Implement Your Own Hooks

Explore how to create your own custom React Hooks that reuse internal hooks and encapsulate logic. Understand the benefits of extracting component logic into hooks for improved readability, maintainability, and reduced duplication within functional components.

Apart from the internal Hooks such as useState or useEffect, it is also possible to create our own custom Hooks. These, in turn, can use internal Hooks or other custom Hooks and encapsulate logic in a reusable form. Creating custom Hooks can be really useful if you want to use the same logic in multiple components. Even if the complexity of the component’s logic grows, it can be useful to divide it and break it up into custom Hooks with meaningful names in order to keep the current function component more manageable and readable.

Your first custom Hook

Let’s start with a relatively simple example and assume that we want to create a custom Hook ...