Course overview

How to work with course materials

Introduction

Setting up Developer Environment

Setting up Initial Project

How to Use ESLint and Prettier Together in a React Project

How to Configure React to Use TypeScript

How to Add Jest to a React Project for Automated Testing

Setting up developer environment

Building React Hooks: API Considerations and Best Practices

How to Implement a Custom useBoolean React Hook

Testing a Custom useBoolean Hook With React Testing Library

How to Implement a Custom useMap Hook With Tests

How to Quickly Import Custom React Hooks With an Index File

Implement an Object Returning API With a react-hanger Clone

Development of custom hooks

CommonJS vs ES6: An Intro to JavaScript Module Systems

What is Transpilation? An Intro to Transpilers vs Compilers

An Intro to Transpilers: ESBuild, Babel, and SWC Compared

What are Babel Transforms and Plugins?

A Beginner's Guide to JavaScript Bundlers

How to Simplify Bundling React Code With Microbundle

How to Add TypeScript Build Steps to React

How to Implement Babel Build Steps in a React App

Conclusion

Preparing code for publishing

Add Continuous Integration to a React Build With GitHub Actions

How to Automatically Generate a React App Changelog

How to Publish a React Library to NPM With GitHub Actions

Publishing the Code

In this course we’ll build a set of custom reusable hooks, a mini react-hanger clone, essentially going from nothing to a fully-automated publishing pipeline that follows the best practices.  We will cover common Hooks APIs every React developer should know, then dive straight into implementing Custom React Hooks, similar to what you will find in leading React libraries in the open source React ecosystem.

## Why this course
React Hooks promise to eliminate the difficulties of sharing state without writing class-based components. The challenge is that Hooks do away with the lifecycle methods and class-based semantics of state management that many React developers were familiar with.  Learning React Hooks on your own can be time consuming, confusing and frustrating.  With that in mind, The newline Guide to Creating a React Hooks Library, was created to provide a complete tutorial that fully covers React Hooks.  Within a few hours you'll have a strong grasp on React Hooks and how to implement them.

## Course Topics
This course packs practical hands-on-instruction using and building React Hooks, along with the best practices you need to build wider React Hooks libraries others across your organization can use.
The first module provides an overview of the React Hooks library project we’ll build, and we'll set up a complete environment with tools for library development.
The subsequent modules then take you through building with React Hooks and creating your React Hooks library, including:
- Hooks API fundamentals
- Developing custom React Hooks
- How to write reusable React Hooks
- Common React Hooks mistakes to avoid in your code
- Transpilers and bundlers for JavaScript libraries
- Using GitHub Actions to test, build, and lint your library
- Publish your React Hooks library to NPM

We’ll use tools including React, TypeScript, Babel, as well as GitHub Actions to build, test, and package a React Hooks library available for others to download from NPM.  Ultimately, build your own React Hooks library and learn the best practices that will make your code reusable. With these skills, you can contribute more confidently to any React codebase using React Hooks, and make your team more productive.

This course is a complete step-by-step guide to coding custom React Hooks and building a Hooks library from scratch.  Confidently master React Hooks, a transformative update added since React version 16.8, that makes it much easier to reuse code as your React codebase grows.

The newline Guide to Creating a React Hooks Library

Common React Hooks mistakes to avoid in your code

Transpilers and bundlers for JavaScript libraries

Using GitHub Actions to test, build, and lint your library

In this first lesson we will set up the development environment you need for the course. I assume most students will already have it all installed.

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In this first lesson we will set up the development environment you need for the course. I assume most students will already have it all installed.

In short you need:

-   the latest long-term supported version of **Node** (version 14 at the time this course was created)
-   Git installed on your machine
-   a code editor of your choice

Andrey Los

Hello everyone. So in this lesson, I'm going to show what setup I'm going to

going to explain how to install anything here. I will just give you some

need to install and we will go from that. So in this course, I'm going to use

long term support version of note. So it will be around version 14. Then I'm

Git, of course, for version control. I'll be using GitHub. Yeah, if you don't

it is, not version manager, if you want to install it and you're on Linux or

highly recommend to use this thing. It's easy to install. You just follow

scripts and you'll be good. I'm also using it under the hood, to be honest. So

the editor, the editor will be the VEP storm, right? Pretty great. Smart as

as they said, I don't think it's the smartest, but it's good. It's very good

of the best. It's paid. It's $30. But you can get a free one. If you will sign

install early access program, it will basically provide you with the free

release builds of our product means the products of JetBrains. So you will go

the dinal link here and that's it. It's pretty great. It's for free. I don't

use it for the any commercial use, but for the learning purposes, it's more

Another editor that I'm not using, but you may install because it's one of the

the market again and it's completely free and supported by Microsoft is Visual

code. Great thing. All platforms are supported. Highly recommend. Even though I

right? I will be using the Linux for my development. Sounds crazy, but if you

there is a DSL in shirt, a window subsystem for Linux. You can install it

it is basically giving you an environment of Linux inside of your windows. So

right? And it means that I'll have all the commands from the Linux. I'll be

node using, you know, be jet or a coral or whatever, all other these Linux

in the console. And I highly recommend you to do that if you're using Windows.

but if you got used to just a Windows setup with the installed node on the

etc, you can continue doing so. It's absolutely fine. But I'm using this one. I

with that. I think it has a great integration with Visual Studio code for web

require a little bit of, you know, searching and Googling, etc. So it's a bit

than for Visual Studio code. But this is what I'm going to use. As you can see,

my console. And if I will run list the files, right, alas, it actually works.

let's say, come on the line here, come on prompt, regular one from the windows.

a less, of course, it's not working. So I'm going to use the VSL. As you can

it's also says VSL Ubuntu 2004 home, blah, blah, blah, project, and then react

So empty project I just created. So this is my setup. You can use your own. It