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Discussion on: How to use useReducer hook to mimic setState method?

 
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Deric Cain

I totally agree with you. For instance, say you have a form with a few inputs. When you go to submit that form, if you are using useState, then you have to create an object with all of the fields in order to submit the data. Sure... no big deal, but when using useReducer, you simply submit your state because it is already an object.

Anyone saying that you are "doing it wrong" is, well.... wrong. There is no rule that says you can't use useReducer just like you are using it in this example. I actually prefer it and if it works easier for you, then "you are doing it right" (especially since there are no perf hits and nothing wrong syntactically).