Use-State-G

Global useState Hook

Installation

npm i use-state-g

or

yarn add use-state-g

Hook

import { useStateG } from 'use-state-g'

Usage

function ParentComponent() {
   let [state, setState] = useStateG('@uniqueKey', 'initialValue')  // Initialize the state in parent component
   
   console.log(state) // initialValue
   
   //...
}

function ChildComponent() {
  let [state, setState] = useStateG('@uniqueKey')  // Receive the state in child component
  
   console.log(state) // initialValue
  
  //...
}

Note: @ is not necessary it just makes your uniqueKey more identical as a key.

Features

• You don't have to go outside of your components to manage global state.
• You can control rendering behaviour & optimize performance with some provided methods as discussed below.
• Similar api as useState.
• Maintainable code with single hook that manages your global state.

Hook Methods

You must initialize the state before you can consume it. But the problem is if you initialize the state by calling the hook itself from a component that component gets subscribed the uniqueKey you provided and triggers unnecessary rerender when the value assigned to uniqueKey changes. To solve this problem you can use init method provided on useStateG hook itself.

init

function ParentComponent() {
  //...
  useStateG.init('@uniqueKey', 'initialValue')  // will initialize the state and assign it to `@uniqueKey`
                                                // will not rerender if value assigned to `@uniqueKey` changes
  //...
}

function ChildComponent() {
  let [state, setState] = useState('@uniqueKey')  // will rerender if value assigned to `@uniqueKey` changes
  
  //...
}

Above problem may also arise when you only need setter function for specific state. In this case you can use setter method provided on useStateG hook itself.

setter

function ViewComponent() {
  let [state, setState] = useStateG('@uniqueKey', 'initialValue') // will rerender if value assigned to `@uniqueKey` changes
  
  //...
}

function ControlComponent() {
  let setState = useStateG.setter('@uniqueKey')  // will retreive the setter function for value assigned to `@uniqueKey`
                                                 // will not rerender if value assigned to `@uniqueKey` changes
  
  //...
}

See full example on Stackblitz

License

Released under MIT License