Hooks

Hooks

Hooks are functions that let you store state and perform side effects.

Yew comes with a few pre-defined hooks. You can also create your own or discover many community-made hooks.

Rules of hooks

1. A hook function name always has to start with use_
2. Hooks can only be used in the following locations:
   • Top-level of a function/hook.
   • Blocks inside a function/hook, given it is not already branched.
   • In the condition of a top-level if expression inside a function/hook.
   • In the scrutinee of a top-level match expression inside a function/hook.
3. Hooks must be called in the same order for every render. Returning early is only allowed when using Suspense

These rules are enforced by either compile-time or run-time errors.

Pre-defined Hooks

Yew comes with the following predefined Hooks:

• use_state
• use_state_eq
• use_memo
• use_callback
• use_mut_ref
• use_node_ref
• use_reducer
• use_reducer_eq
• use_effect
• use_effect_with
• use_context
• use_force_update

The documentation for these hooks can be found in the Yew API docs

Custom Hooks

There are cases where you want to define your own Hooks to encapsulate potentially stateful logic from a component into reusable functions. See the Defining custom hooks section for more information.

Further reading

• The React documentation has a section on React hooks. These are not the same as Yew's hooks, but the underlying concept is similar.