The useState Hook

In building dynamic, user-friendly interfaces, it’s essential to let components remember and update their own data. Previously, only class components could hold internal state, making certain interactions more complex to implement. Now, with the useState hook, we can manage state directly inside the functional components. This addition enables our UI to respond immediately to user inputs, changing data, and other events, with simpler, more readable code.

How useState works

The useState hook allows functional components to have their own internal state, enabling them to manage dynamic data over time. When we call useState, we provide a default value, which sets the initial state of the component. It returns an array containing two ...