The Importance of Hooks
Explore the concept of hooks in React Native, particularly the useState hook, to understand how to manage state in functional components. This lesson guides you through creating a simple counter app using useState, helping you grasp state initialization, updating, and component rerendering, essential for interactive React Native development.
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What are hooks?
Hooks can be thought of as a way to tap into features of React using a simple syntax.
A hook enables us to use features such as state, lifecycle methods, and other features of React, without having to write a lot of code.
These are the most common hooks used in React Native:
useStateuseEffectuseContextuseReduceruseMemo