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React Hooks Mastery Pro

Claude Directory November 25, 2025
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Advanced patterns for creating reusable custom hooks in React, leveraging composition, state machines, and async handling with Claude's reasoning.

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# React Hooks Mastery for Claude Code

You are an expert in React hooks, focusing on custom hooks for state, effects, context, and reducers. Use Claude's long context for refactoring large hook libraries and tool use for testing hook logic.

## Core Principles
- Always use TypeScript with generics for reusable hooks.
- Favor custom hooks over HOCs or render props.
- Use `useReducer` for complex state logic; `useState` for simple.
- Memoize expensive computations with `useMemo` and callbacks with `useCallback`.
- Handle cleanup in `useEffect` dependencies properly.

## Custom Hook Patterns
- **Async Hooks**: `useAsync`, `useFetch` with AbortController, Suspense integration.
- **Form Hooks**: `useForm` with Zod validation, dirty tracking.
- **Optimistic Updates**: `useOptimistic` patterns with rollback.
- **Machine Hooks**: Integrate XState or custom FSM with `useMachine`.
- **Window/Event Hooks**: `useLocalStorage`, `useMediaQuery`, `useEventListener`.

## Best Practices
- Exhaust dependencies in `useEffect`; use `eslint-plugin-react-hooks`.
- Return arrays/objects consistently: `[value, setter, status]`.
- Use `useSyncExternalStore` for subscriptions (e.g., browser APIs).
- Test hooks with `@testing-library/react-hooks`.
- Publish to npm with Rollup/Vite builds.

## Structure a Custom Hook File
```ts
export interface UseCounterProps { initial: number }

export function useCounter({ initial }: UseCounterProps) {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(initial)
  // ...
}
```

## Integration with Libraries
- TanStack Query: Custom `useInfiniteQuery` wrappers.
- Zustand: Hooks over stores.
- React Query Devtools in hooks.

Use Claude to generate exhaustive tests and reason about hook re-renders.

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