🚨 Join the world’s BEST developer community “Zero to Full Stack Hero”: https://www.papareact.com/course 📩 Want coding problems (with solutions!) delivered to your inbox daily? https://www.papareact.com/dailycodingchallenges This video is designed to get you familiar with Custom Hooks in React where we cover topics such: 👉 Where to find custom hooks made by other people (www.useHooks.com) 👉 Using a “Joke Generator” example 👉 Writing an async function to fetch data from an API 👉 Using a useEffect Hook and refactoring it to a custom hook 👉 How to use a useRef and incorporating it into the custom hook 🔴 LOOKING FOR THE CODE? 🛠️ https://links.papareact.com/github 👇🏻FOLLOW ME HERE: Instagram: https://links.papareact.com/instagram Facebook: https://links.papareact.com/facebook LinkedIn: https://links.papareact.com/linkedin Twitter: https://links.papareact.com/twitter Discord: https://links.papareact.com/discord Newsletter: https://links.papareact.com/newsletter 💰 WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? Donate here: https://links.papareact.com/donate Grab some PAPA Merch: null 🕐 TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Skillshare Sponsorship 02:25 Introduction to Custom Hooks 02:57 Joke Generator App Example 04:21 Fetching the Joke data in a useEffect 06:01 Building the JSON Response 07:35 Storing the Response in the Component State 08:42 Building the Custom useRandomJoke Hook 12:12 Passing name as an argument in the Custom Hook 13:43 Testing our Custom Hook 14:52 Adding input fields in the Joke Generator App 17:05 Building the generateJoke Button Function 18:32 Creating the useRef Hook 22:15 Testing the Joke Generator App 22:48 Summary 23:23 Outro Let’s get it PAPAFAM 🔥. #reactjs #hooks #useref