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Exploring the Power of Custom Hooks in React/React Native

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Exploring the Power of Custom Hooks in React/React Native Developers are constantly looking for ways to enhance the performance and functionality of their apps as the popularity of React Native continues to rise. Using custom hooks is a powerful tool that can help with this. Utilizing custom hooks, component logic can be converted into reusable functions. They keep your code organized and simple to maintain, allowing you to share logic across multiple components. By allowing you to only re-render the specific parts of your components that require updating, custom hooks can also improve performance. You must first write a function that begins with the word "use" in order to create a custom hook. After that, this function can manipulate state and props, call other hooks, and return a particular value or piece of functionality. You could, for instance, make a useFetch hook that gets data from an API and changes your component's state. When using custom hooks, one of the best...

How to create custom hook in react?

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In React, a custom hook is a JavaScript function that starts with the word “use” and that can call other hooks. Custom hooks allow you to extract component logic into reusable functions. To create a custom hook, you can define a function that starts with the word “use” and that includes any logic that you want to reuse. You can then call this function within your components to access the logic it contains. Here is an example of a simple custom hook that manages the state of a toggle button: This custom hook uses the built-in  useState  hook to manage a piece of state that represents whether the toggle button is on or off. It also defines a function called  toggle  that can be used to toggle the state. The hook returns an array that contains the current state and the toggle function. Then you can use this custom hook in your component: In this example, the  MyToggleButton  component calls the  useToggle  custom hook and destructures the returned ar...