Create a custom useLocalStorage React hook

Let's just make a quick little useLocalStorage hook

(note, hooks are not stable, but by the time they are, every hook conceivable will have been written and open sourced already... I'm pretty sure there are at least 10 localstorage hooks on npm already).

[frfancha]

Kent is really "the" React teacher you need. His courses on egghead.io are worth every second you spent on them.

[Rose-]

Thank you Kent, it was sooo helpful :) How simple you explained it!

[swssdev]

You're my new favorite coding channel! I'm in love.

[berrywarmer]

Awesome video :)
Quick reference timestamps:
- Simplest logic for useState for an onClick counter: 3:04
- Base logic for localStorage to increment a persistent number on click is complete: 6:04 (no new functions yet)
- Explanation for why Kent chooses to use useEffect instead of an extra function to clear count: 7:19
- Starting to build the useLocalStorage custom hook: 8:16
- Using the newly created useLocalStorage custom hook: 10:31
- Showing a third party NPM library that provides many custom hooks, including useLocalStorage: 12:31

[mlala]

Met ya last week and been watching your videos on hooks 👍

[khgriffi]

Hooks are very, very cool guys. Please enjoy them.

[yangyu]

hey kent. awesome video. had a quick question about useState and localStorage - could you just write || 0) instead of using the function? whats the benefit of returning a function that returns the value rather than just the value?

[Shakas]

Could someone explain why he's getting that error in 5:27? That should simply return 0 if nothing's found in LS

[aruprakshit]

Why the codesandbox link is not given in the description, so that we can copy and paste and get into ti? :)

[williamsyeo]

Great video Kent !
Do you think using localStorage (sync) in Js app is a good solution ?