Hooks Introduction -
Hooks are introduced in React 16.8 are a new addition, by using hooks you avail to use the state and other react features without writing any class.
It is basically used for handling state and react side effects in functional components. By using hooks you can use the stateful functions inside the functional component.
You are not able to use the hooks within any class component. React Native provides some built-in hooks like - useState and useEffect.
Following are some important points about hooks.
About Hooks -
- Hooks are best practice
- Hooks are easy to understand
- Hooks are easy to test
- Hooks increases the performance of the app
Why Using Hooks -
If you want to use a functional component then you need to write a functional method and within the functional component if you want to use state or lifecycle then we use the hooks. Also, you can use this in existing functional components.
How To Use Hooks with useState and useEffect -
Here we are going to see the example of how we use the useEffect and useState with react native.
Example Using Class -
Continue Reading: React Native Hooks
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