Hooks are a new addition in React 16.8 that lets you use state and other React features without writing a class. This website provides easy to understand code examples to help you learn how hooks work and hopefully inspire you to take advantage of them in your next project. Be sure to check out the official docs. You can also submit post ideas in our Github repo.
A really common need is to get the current size of the browser window. This hook returns an object containing the window's width and height. If executed server-side (no window object) the value of width and height will be undefined.
import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
// Usage
function App() {
const size = useWindowSize();
return (
<div>
{size.width}px / {size.height}px
</div>
);
}
// Hook
function useWindowSize() {
const isClient = typeof window === 'object';
function getSize() {
return {
width: isClient ? window.innerWidth : undefined,
height: isClient ? window.innerHeight : undefined
};
}
const [windowSize, setWindowSize] = useState(getSize);
useEffect(() => {
if (!isClient) {
return false;
}
function handleResize() {
setWindowSize(getSize());
}
window.addEventListener('resize', handleResize);
return () => window.removeEventListener('resize', handleResize);
}, []); // Empty array ensures that effect is only run on mount and unmount
return windowSize;
}