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Discussion on: My 5 cents about React Hooks

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Pablo Berganza

I've definitely enjoyed React much more since the introduction of Hooks!
Hey, I just have a minor nitpick! In your example of useState, you should generally avoid using an object. So instead of

const [data, setData] = useState({})

You could do something like this

const [name, setName] = useState('')
const [email, setEmail] = useState('')

Since (as you saw), setState does not merge objects by default, it just replaces the whole state.

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Guilherme Toti

True, it replaces the whole state, but I do prefer to have an object on state instead N variables, (depending the case), but I think this is personal preferences.
When I set states with objects, I usually update it like (e.g):

setData(data => ({ ...data, someUpdate: “ok” });

This way I get the current state value, add it to my object, and update what I want on it... keeping it immutable.