Roll your Own Redux With useContext & useReducer
“Most projects aren’t complex enough to require Redux.” I hear this refrain from the React community often. I’m not here to debate how valid it is. What I do know is that there are situations where you do want to share state between multiple components, and you may not want to bring Redux into your […]
Continue readingAdd Hooks to Class Components With Higher-Order Components
If you are using class components, but want to use hooks, you can’t do so directly. One strategy for adding them is to use adapter components. Another strategy is to use higher-order components to pass along data from hooks as props. Example: Creating a MessageStore Here’s our sample custom hook: We want to build a […]
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Redux Now Has Hooks. A Before and After Comparison
Today the react-redux team released version 7.1.0, which adds hooks to react-redux! Here’s a quick comparison of how it could change how you write components. First, A Brief Overview of The New Toys useSelector: Pass in a function that takes the state as an argument and returns a value. Used to get a single value […]
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How to Use useEffect (and other hooks) in Class Components
Learn how to use useEffect and other hooks inside of class based components.
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