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Matt Upham
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Practical uses for React hooks: simplifying your forms (tutorial)

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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