React Hooks have been life-changing for React developers. They provide a simple and elegant way to write code that is more readable and maintainable. There are only a few handfuls of hooks provided by React. Depending on our use case, we create custom hooks.

Before creating our own custom, we can look up to the following react hooks libraries that help in the project.

1. React Hooks Form

Github Docs

React Hooks for form state management and validation (Web + React Native). It reduces the amount of code you need to write while removing unnecessary re-renders.

Features

• Built with performance, UX, and DX in mind.
• Embraces native HTML form validation
• Out-of-the-box integration with UI libraries
• Small size and no dependencies
• Support Yup, Zod, AJV, Superstruct, Joi, Vest, class-validator, io-ts, nope, and custom build

2. React Use

Github Docs

React use is a collection of essential React Hooks for managing devices sensors, UI controls, animations, side-effects, Lifecycle, State, and more

3. React Query

Github Docs

React Hooks for fetching, caching, and updating asynchronous data in React. It has declarative, always-up-to-date auto-managed queries and mutations that directly improve both your developer and user experiences.

Features

• Transport/protocol/backend agnostic data fetching (REST, GraphQL, promises, whatever!)
• Auto Caching + Refetching (stale-while-revalidate, Window Refocus, Polling/Realtime)
• Parallel + Dependent Queries
• Mutations + Reactive Query Refetching
• Multi-layer Cache + Automatic Garbage Collection
• Paginated + Cursor-based Queries
• Load-More + Infinite Scroll Queries w/ Scroll Recovery
• Request Cancellation
• React Suspense + Fetch-As-You-Render Query Prefetching
• Dedicated Devtools ...

4. useDebounce

Github

React hook for value and callback debouncing

5. useHooks-ts

Github Docs

It has a lot of hooks for many of the handful of use cases in the application lifecycle, Here are some of the following: useCopyToClipboard() useDarkMode() useEventListener() useIsMounted() useMap() useSsr() useStep() and many more.

6. Constate

Github

It lets you create local states using React Hooks and use them as a React Context only when needed with minimum effort.

7. useHttp

Github Docs

It is an awesome package that is used as the replacement for the Fetch API.

Features

• SSR (server-side rendering) support
• TypeScript support
• 2 dependencies (use-ssr, urs)
• GraphQL support (queries + mutations)
• Provider to set default URL and options
• Request/response interceptors
• React Native support
• Aborts/Cancels pending HTTP requests when a component unmounts
• Built in caching
• Persistent caching support
• Suspense(experimental) support
• Retry functionality

8. useMedia

Github

A React sensor hook that tracks the state of a CSS media query It takes a straightforward solution to the issue as media queries are extremely critical for the responsiveness of any application or website.

9. rehooks/local-storage

Github Docs React hook for enabling synchronization with local storage.

Features

• Automatic JSON serialization
• Synchronization across multiple tabs
• Synchronization across multiple tabs
• Type hinting via TypeScript

10. React Hanger

Github

Set of helpful hooks, for specific to some primitive types of state-changing helpers React-hanger is a library that has some React Hooks that let us more easily manage various kinds of states. Here are some of the following hooks: useInput useBoolean useNumber useArray useOnMount useOnUnmount and many more...

Bonus

• awesome-react-hooks A curated resource of react hooks
• **React Recieps A React Hooks utility library containing popular customized hooks
• component-size React hook for determining the size of a component
• online-status React hook for subscribing to online/offline events and the navigator.onLine property to see the current status

Conclusion

Hooks are reusable, clean, and simple functions that can be incorporated into your workflow. They offer us many options for a diverse range of uses, so we don’t have to build them from scratch.

There are also many more hook libraries out there. I have only selected which are the most popular and well maintained. If I have missed any good libraries, write them down in the comment section.

Thank you for reading!