Last year the React team released a feature called “hooks” that lets you do some powerful stuff we couldn’t do as easily before… Managing state. Accessing DOM elements. Using side effects.
It’s fair to say the React community had a collective melt-down over this. For the better part of 2019, hooks turned into an all-encompassing obsession.
Hooks came with a bunch of pre-made options, but also allowed you to remix the default options to create custom hooks
Joe Previte made a whole egghead course on
Shareable Custom Hooks in React
. While working through the material I made a set of illustrated notes on the main ideas
Want more illustrated notes on web development?
Take a look at What the Fork is React Suspense?