React Hooks

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• Episode: React Hooks
• Website: Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
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• Duration: 00:58:58
• Published: 2018-11-14 15:00

In this episode Wes and Scott discuss React Hooks - what they are, why you might want to use them, their differences with regular classes, and more.

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Show Notes

2:30

• Function components

4:50

• What are React hooks?

8:12

• What problem does this solve?

12:00

• State hooks

21:50

• Context hooks

26:02

• Effect hooks

36:46

• Reducer hooks

40:40

• Ref Hooks

48:00

• Libraries already using React hooks
  • Rehooks → Listing of hook libraries
  • React Spring
  • React Measure
  • Formik
  • Immer

50:30

• Resources
  • Dan Abramov’s Talk
  • Harry Wolf
  • Use Hooks Newsletter
  • Awesome React Hooks

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