@dtrw/react-utils

This is repository with some react utils (just hooks for now) that are used (or will be used) in my other projects, but can also be used by anyone

• Install
• Usage
  • useArray
  • useObject
  • useToggle
  • usePrevious

Install

yarn add -D @dtrw/react-utils

or

npm i -D @dtrw/react-utils

Usage

useArray

Inspired by @lbfalvy's useArray hook

This hook aims to achieve two goals:

• allows using arrays in useMemo/useCallback/useEffect-like hooks and make sure they won't rerun if arrays don't actually change
• allows using arrays in above mentioned hooks' dependency arrays just like that (without spread workarounds etc) without triggering eslint-plugin-react-hooks' exhaustive-deps rule

function useArray<T>(
    data: T[], // array of interest
    isEqual?: (prev: T, current: T) => boolean // method for deep-checking if any of elements changed or not
): T[];

isEqual defaults to reference === check. If provided, will be called for each pair of previous' and current's arrays' elements ONLY IF those arrays are not the same reference and are of same length.

Example:

import { useMemo } from 'react';
import { useArray } from '@dtrw/react-utils';

function Component({ data }: Props) {
    const memoedData = useArray(data);

    // useMemo won't re-calculate until `data`'s contents actually changes
    const rendered = useMemo(() => memoedData.map(renderElement), [memoedData]);

    return <>{rendered}</>
}
function Component2({ data }: Props) {
    const memoedData = useArray(data);

    // SomeComponent won't rerender until `data`'s contents actually changes
    return <SomeComponent data={memoedData} />
}

useObject

This hook allows using object in useMemo/useCallback/useEffect-like hooks while making sure they won't rerun unless the object's content actually changes

function useObject<T>(
    object: T, // object of interest
    isEqual?: (prev: T, current: T) => boolean // method for deep-checking if object actually changed
): T[];

isEqual defaults to reference === check. If provided, will be called on each render ONLY IF current reference differs from previous one. If it returns true, the previous reference will be returned. If not provided, useObject becomes a no-op.

Example:

import { useMemo } from 'react';
import { useObject } from '@dtrw/react-utils';

function Component() {
    const date = useObject(new Date(), (oldDate, nowDate) => oldDate.getFullYear() === nowDate.getFullYear());

    const rendered = useEffect(() => alert('Year changed to ' + date.getFullYear()), [date]);

    return <div />
}

useToggle

This hook is a wrapper on boolean useState that also returns a method for toggling the state

Usage:

import { useToggle } from '@dtrw/react-utils';

// state and setState come directly from `useState`
const [state, toggle, setState] = useToggle(true) // accepts boolean initialState
// or
const [state, toggle, setState] = useToggle() // defaults to false

usePrevious

This hook remembers it's argument's value from previous render

Usage:

import { usePrevious } from '@dtrw/react-utils';

const previous = usePrevious(current)

Example of return values:

render	argument value	return value
#0	1	undefined
#1	2	1
#2	2	2
#3	'abc'	2
#4	null	'abc'
#5	null	null
#6	1	null

etc...