React Hooks in Action

10 Using third-party hooks

This chapter covers

• Making the most of third-party hooks
• Accessing state in the URL with React Router’s useParams and useSearchParams hooks
• Switching to a new route with React Router’s useNavigate hook
• Efficiently fetching and caching data with React Query’s useQuery hook
• Updating data on the server with React Query’s useMutation hook

Chapter 9 introduced custom hooks as a way to extract functionality from components, making the functionality reusable and simplifying the components. Custom hooks provide a simple, readable way to access all kinds of functionality from a function component, whether that’s simple tasks like changing the document title or managing a state value with local storage, or increasingly complex ...