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7 custom React Hooks every developer should be using

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Murat Yüksel
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Modern web development emphasizes speed and efficiency, with React Hooks playing a pivotal role in streamlining the development process. React Hooks, both built-in and custom, allow developers to manage state and lifecycle features without writing complex class components. The article discusses useHooks, a collection of custom React Hooks available via npm, which simplifies web development by offering a variety of Hooks such as useMediaQuery, useHover, useCopyToClipboard, useToggle, useIdle, useMeasure, useLocalStorage, and useCounter. These Hooks facilitate responsive design, animation handling, clipboard functionality, state toggling, user inactivity detection, element measurement, state persistence, and counter management, respectively, enhancing developer productivity and application performance. The article encourages developers to experiment with these Hooks in a Vite + React project and provides code snippets and examples to illustrate their usage, while also noting potential complications with React's experimental useEffectEvent.