We've now arrived at Day 5 of our special 6-part YouTube tutorial series on React Hooks . Hooks are so important for all React developers to understand because, conceptually, React components have always been closer to functions and the library supports a functional way of thinking. Hooks add powerful capabilities to functional components. Now in Tutorial 5, Paige covers a powerful Hook - the useContext Hook: The use of component hierarchies solved problems in React around composing UI out of smaller individual parts, but created a range of new problems:

In this hands-on tutorial, I’ll show you how to build a React dropdown menu from scratch, without any library. We’ll cover: how to get the selected value from the dropdown, and how to create the dropdown with both functional and class components.