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Learn React Hooks
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Learn React Hooks

by Daniel Bugl
October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
11h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 10: Building Your Own Hooks

  1. How can we extract a custom Hook from existing code?
    • We can simply put our code into a separate function. In custom Hook functions other Hook functions can be used, but we need to make sure not to violate the rules of Hooks.
  1. What is the advantage of creating API Hooks?
    • When defining separate functions for the various API calls, we can easily adjust them if the API changes later on, because we have all the API-related code in one place
  2. When should we extract functionality into a custom Hook?
    • We should create a custom Hook when a certain functionality is used in multiple places or when it could be re-used later on
  3. How do we use custom Hooks?
    • We can simply call custom Hooks just like we would ...
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