What you need to know about the React useEvent Hook RFC

Referential equality is a key concept in React that significantly influences component re-rendering, and the useEvent Hook, currently under discussion within the React community, aims to manage this by providing a stable function identity for event handlers. While the useCallback Hook is commonly used to address referential equality by memoizing functions, it recreates event handlers whenever dependencies like state or props change, which can be inefficient. The proposed useEvent Hook would maintain a single instance of an event handler across re-renders, ensuring the function has access to the latest prop and state values without being recreated. However, its use is limited in certain situations, such as during rendering, and it can result in different versions of handlers for useEffect and useLayoutEffect during unmounting. Though not yet available for practical use, the useEvent Hook represents a promising development for React developers, promising greater efficiency and stability in managing referential equality in applications.