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Reducing Boilerplate Code with React Hook Form

Explore how to use React Hook Form to simplify and reduce boilerplate in React forms. This lesson helps you refactor forms to use React Hook Form's useForm hook, manage input states efficiently, and streamline form handling with fewer lines of code.

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In this section, we are going to use a popular forms library called React Hook Form. This library reduces the amount of code we need to write when implementing forms. Once we have installed React Hook Form, we will refactor the search form we created in the previous section. We will then use React Hook Form to implement forms for asking a question and answering a question.

Setting up React Hook Form

React Hook Form can be installed using the following command:

Node.js
npm install react-hook-form

The react-hook-form package includes TypeScript types, so these aren’t in a separate package that we need to install.

Next, we will start to use React Hook Form for the search form in the Header component.

Refactoring the Header component to use React Hook Form

We are going to ...