Learn React Hooks

The Reducer Hook

Now that we have defined actions and the reducer function, we can create a Reducer Hook from the reducer. The signature for the useReducer Hook is as follows:

const [ state, dispatch ] = useReducer(reducer, initialState)

The only thing that we still need to define is the initialState; then we can define a Reducer Hook:

const initialState = { all: true }

Now, we can access the state by using the state object that was returned from the Reducer Hook, and dispatch actions via the dispatch function, as follows:

dispatch({ type: 'TOGGLE_EXPAND' })

If we want to add additional options to the action, we simply add them to the action object:

dispatch({ type: 'CHANGE_FILTER', fromDate: '2019-04-30' })

As we can see, dealing with state ...