
Learning React with Kent C. Dodds
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Using State Hook in a React Component
Hook is basically a special function from react that allows you to hook into either state or side effects, or some combination of the two. You have use state Hook and by convention, they're all prefixed with us so that we can some static cod analysis tools that can give us warnings when we're doing things incorrectly. So if we were building a very simple counter, then you could say, react dot use state. And then you also have a reactot use effect, which you pass a call back to. Every time there's a re render, so every time your component up date some state, then this call back will get called. There's a way for passing values all throughout
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