---
title: "Hooked on React Hooks"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/hooked-on-react-hooks-mkxtdpvpr
source_url: https://stevenwu91.medium.com/hooked-on-react-hooks-e7d93ec7f258
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2021-05-31T05:50:03.788Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["react"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 10
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Hooked on React Hooks

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## Summary

React hooks were introduced in React v16.8.0. Hooks are able to provide state to functional component rather than class component. The useState hook is used to replace the tradition way of setting state in class components since it provides you with a state and a setter function for that state as well. Effect Hook is is favorite since it replaces all of the traditional life cycle methods such as componentDidMount, componentDidUpdate and componentWillUnmount.

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