>I struggle to grok what hooks do that I was missing before. I wrote about this too: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/making-sense-of-react-hooks-fdbde8803889

>I struggle to grok what hooks do that I was missing before. I wrote about this too: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/making-sense-of-react-hooks-fdbde8803889 https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/making-sense-of-react-hooks-... Hope it helps. As another commenter note, the OP article discusses the pathological case. An API can make a hundred cases simpler but discussions will always focus on the few ones that got harder. The point of this post is to show how to work through this case and why the _end result_ is more flexible and powerful than before.