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Master React Custom Hooks

Learn to build reusable, composable hooks that will elevate your React applications to the next level.

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';

function useLocalStorage(key, initialValue) {
  const [value, setValue] = useState(() => {
    const stored = localStorage.getItem(key);
    return stored ? JSON.parse(stored) : initialValue;
  });

  useEffect(() => {
    localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(value));
  }, [key, value]);

  return [value, setValue];
}

Custom Hooks Courses

Structured learning paths to help you master custom hooks from fundamentals to advanced patterns.

Custom Hooks Fundamentals

Beginner

Learn the core concepts of creating and using custom hooks in React applications.

8 Lessons
70%

Advanced Hook Patterns

Intermediate

Explore advanced patterns like hook composition, factory hooks, and context integration.

12 Lessons
40%

Real-world Hook Solutions

Advanced

Build practical hooks for authentication, API calls, animations, and more.

15 Lessons

Featured Lesson: useFetch

Learn how to create a powerful data fetching hook that handles loading states, errors, and caching automatically.

The useFetch hook simplifies data fetching in React components by encapsulating the common patterns of making HTTP requests.

  • Handles loading and error states
  • Supports request cancellation
  • Includes caching mechanism
  • TypeScript support
  • Reusable across your application

Live Example

function UserProfile({ userId }) {
  const { data, loading, error } = useFetch(
    `https://api.example.com/users/${userId}`
  );

  if (loading) return <Spinner />;
  if (error) return <Error message={error} />;

  return (
    <div>
      <h2>{data.name}</h2>
      <p>{data.email}</p>
    </div>
  );
}

Loading user data...

Latest Articles

Deep dives into custom hook concepts and best practices.

Authentication Hooks

May 15, 2023

Learn how to create secure authentication hooks for your React applications that handle login, logout, and session management.

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4.8

Performance Hooks

June 2, 2023

Optimize your React apps with custom hooks that help identify and fix performance bottlenecks.

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4.9

Device Detection Hooks

June 10, 2023

Create responsive experiences with hooks that detect device type, screen size, and orientation changes.

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4.7

Interactive Playground

Experiment with custom hooks in real-time. Try our pre-built examples or create your own.

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';

export function useLocalStorage(key, initialValue) {
  // State to store our value
  const [storedValue, setStoredValue] = useState(() => {
    try {
      // Get from local storage by key
      const item = window.localStorage.getItem(key);
      // Parse stored json or return initialValue
      return item ? JSON.parse(item) : initialValue;
    } catch (error) {
      // If error also return initialValue
      console.log(error);
      return initialValue;
    }
  });

  // Return a wrapped version of useState's setter function
  // that persists the new value to localStorage.
  const setValue = (value) => {
    try {
      // Allow value to be a function so we have same API as useState
      const valueToStore =
        value instanceof Function ? value(storedValue) : value;
      // Save state
      setStoredValue(valueToStore);
      // Save to local storage
      window.localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(valueToStore));
    } catch (error) {
      console.log(error);
    }
  };

  return [storedValue, setValue];
}

Preview

useLocalStorage Example

This example demonstrates persisting form input to localStorage.

Current localStorage Value

// localStorage.getItem('username')
null

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