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react-use-previous

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React - usePrevious

React hook for remembering a previous value.

Install

npm install --save react-use-previous

Usage

This hook is similar to the one mentioned in the docs, but it returns a ref instead of the actual value, so that you can use this anywhere, even if some functions are cached.

import {useState} from 'react';
import usePrevious from 'react-use-previous';

function useFoo () {

  const [value, setValue] = useState ( 0 );
  const prevValue = usePrevious ( value );

  useEffect ( () => {

    function update () {

      // This function is cached, since this useEffect has no dependencies and gets only executed when mounting and unmounting
      // But it can still access the previous value

      const nextValue = Math.random ();

      if ( nextValue !== prevValue.current ) setValue ( nextValue );

    }

    $(window).on ( 'resize', update );

    return () => $(window).off ( 'resize', update );

  }, [] );

  return value;

}