What you'll learn:
- Explore the React Hooks API introduced in React 16.8
- Master the useState, useEffect, and useContext hooks that ship with the library
- Declare your own custom hooks to extract business logic from components
Welcome to GettingStarted with React Hooks!
This course offers a comprehensive overview of React Hooks, the latest feature introduced in the popular React library for building dynamic front end interfaces.
A hook is a plain JavaScript function that "hooks" into existing React features like state, lifecycle methods, and context. In the official documentation, the core React team writes that, in due time, they "expect Hooks to be the primary way people write React components".
Getting Started withReact Hooks begins with the essentials and proceeds to more complex topics including:
The useState hook
The useEffect hook
The useContext hook
Custom hooks
In addition to hooks, the course is packed with optional lessons to enhance your knowledge of core JavaScript and React concepts. These topics include:
Stateless functional and class-basedReact components
Lifecycle methods
Array and object destructuring
Closures
Event Listeners
The React Context API
No matter your skill level, the content is designed to get you up to speed on React Hooks as quickly as possible.
Thanks for checking out the course!