{"id":8204,"date":"2026-01-07T20:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=8204"},"modified":"2026-01-07T20:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:23:43","slug":"react-has-changed-your-hooks-should-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/react-has-changed-your-hooks-should-too\/","title":{"rendered":"React has changed, your Hooks should too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allthingssmitty.com\/2025\/12\/01\/react-has-changed-your-hooks-should-too\/\">Matt Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>React Hooks have been around for years, but most codebases still use them the same way: a bit of\u00a0<code>useState<\/code>, an overworked\u00a0<code>useEffect<\/code>, and a lot of patterns that get copy-pasted without much thought. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Before reaching for&nbsp;<code>useEffect<\/code>, ask yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is this driven by something external (network, DOM, subscriptions)?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or can I compute this during render?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If it\u2019s the latter, tools like&nbsp;<code>useMemo<\/code>,&nbsp;<code>useCallback<\/code>, or framework-provided primitives will make your component a lot less fragile.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Smith: React Hooks have been around for years, but most codebases still use them the same way: a bit of\u00a0useState, an overworked\u00a0useEffect, and a lot of patterns that get copy-pasted without much thought. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[70,62,330],"class_list":["post-8204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-performance","tag-react","tag-react-hooks"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pexels-photo-5891037.jpeg?fit=867%2C1300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8206,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions\/8206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}