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Manage state with hooks - React.js Tutorial
From the course: React Best Practices by Pearson
Manage state with hooks
All right, so the first thing that we're going to talk about in this section is we're going to see how to use the use state hook to manage state and react. Now you're probably already familiar with how the use state hook works, but I want to go into a little bit more detail on this hook and the specific best practices around it when using it for state. So first First things first, as you can see in this slide, the main use case for the use state hook is really not as broad as people typically think, right? You know, in theory, you could use the use state hook to manage the entire state of a very complex application. But what many people find when they try and do that is their application ends up having a lot of bugs because frankly, that's just not what this hook is intended to do. We'll take a look at a few better options for managing complex state later in this section. So anyway, really, the main use case for the use state hook is for relatively simple state, right? Think things…
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