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useState

Explore how to use the React useState Hook to initialize and update component state. Understand different update patterns for primitive values, arrays, and objects along with best practices to avoid unnecessary renders and state replacement behavior.

Initializing the state

This Hook returns a value as well as a function to us, which we can use to update the value. We can initialize the state using this Hook in the following way:

const [state, setState] = useState(initialState);

During the first rendering of a component that uses this Hook, this value is equal to the ...