How to useState in React

A detailed look at how React.useState works

Introduction

Mental Model

Component Re-render

Preserving Values between Re-renders

useState

Lazy State Initialization

In Summary…

  • useState allows you to trigger a component re-render, add state to a function component, and preserve values between renders
  • enabling lazy state initialization is the result of passing in a function definition versus a function invocation

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