useState

Why does React state need a new object/array?

Why does React state need a new object/array?

  • May 25, 2021

If you have been using React for a while, you are familiar with how state update works. There are a lot of internal optimizations that React makes for faster rendering. One of the implementation details of the React internals is that it checks whether the given state object has actually...

Provide callback to useState hook like setState

Provide callback to useState hook like setState

  • December 15, 2020

If you have been writing class components for a while, you might be familiar with the callback functionality that the setState function provides. setState allows a second parameter to be passed to it as a callback. The callback function is invoked whenever the state of the function gets updated. But,...

React Hooks and Local Storage: Let’s build a ToDo app

React Hooks and Local Storage: Let’s build a ToDo app

  • August 25, 2020

React hooks have been around for quite some time. They have been widely adopted by the React community since then and have started becoming the defacto for newer React applications. A react hook allows developers to hook into React features. React hooks allow building components by using functions instead of...