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Learn event handling and updating the state

Learn event handling and updating the state

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Learn event handling and updating the state

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- [Instructor] In order to get started with the hooks, let's take a first look at useState. So we're going to start by importing it from the React Library. And it's going to be useState, so we must make sure that this is added to the scope of this component app. And so the goal here is to transform this functional component into a stateful functional component. So we're going to go inside and we're going to use this syntax with useState. It's going to return an array. So first is a local variable to return the current state, and second is the function that we use to update the state. And as we saw previously, you can always pass an initial state. So we're going to use that, so instead of accessing photos outside of the component, because we can never access any update, we're going to refer to items, because now we can handle the logic from within the components. So we're going to check this out. So for now, this is giving…

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