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How to use Custom React Hooks! (React Form Validation made easy, example)

Forms are notoriously tedious to create, manage, and validate.

With old school React, you'd have to create classes, and it was challenging to re-use stateful logic.

Thankfully, with custom React hooks, you can reuse all your logic and reduce the amount of lines of code by ~50%!

Here's a straightforward example of how to do form validation with custom hooks!

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React Hooks Tutorial (Custom Hooks) | Form Validation made easy

React Hooks are a much more concise way of handling stateful logic, and once you'll learn them, you'll be hooked 😜

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Yogi Wisesa

Now I'm hooked with react hooks :D

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Matt Upham

Haha, they're great!

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ScriptKavi

Why create one when you can get all awesome hooks in a single library?

Try scriptkavi/hooks. Copy paste style and easy to integrate with its own CLI

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