OuterHooks 💫

Create function components using powerful and composable hooks.

If you know and love hooks from React, you already know the main API of OuterHooks as they are very alike.

Differences to React

• OuterHooks is plain JavaScript/TypeScript
• No JSX here – does not render to the DOM or any UI really
• Only compose logic using native & custom hooks
• Life cycle hooks like useEffect also run in Node

Install

yarn add @xiel/outer-hooks@beta

Warning: Work in progress 🚧

This library is still in beta. It works, is well tested and actively being developed. But the API is not 100% stable yet.

Hooks

Native Hooks

• useState, useRef, useMemo, useCallback, useReducer, useEffect, useLayoutEffect, ...

For now please check the React Hooks API reference as they work exactly the same in OuterHooks.

Custom Hooks

By composing native hooks, you are creating a custom hook. Native hooks and custom hooks can be composed and nested.

Example

// Define a custom hook
function useCustomHook() {
  const [currentState, setState] = useState(0)

  useEffect(() => {
    if (currentState < 5) {
      setState(currentState + 1)
    }
  }, [currentState])

  return currentState
}

// Run the hook
const custom = runHook(useCustomHook)

// Gets called every time the hook has run
// In this example it will get called with the values 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
custom.on('update', (value) => console.log(value))

// Gets called when the hook was destroyed
custom.on('destroy', (error) => console.error('destroyed'))

runHook(fn)

runHook(fn) returns the following interface, which lets you await the next value, await effects, read the latest value and subscribe to updates to your hook.

export interface Root<Props, HookValue> {
  displayName: string

  /**
   * Resolves once the hooks has rendered.
   * Might resolve after being intermediately suspended.
   */
  value: Promise<HookValue>

  /**
   * Resolves once all side effects have run (cleanups, useLayoutEffects and useEffects)
   */
  effects: Promise<void>

  /**
   * Returns the current value of the ran hook (outermost custom `useXYZ` hook)
   * This might return undefined or a stole/older value while the hook is suspended.
   * Recommended: Use the value promise to get the latest value.
   */
  currentValue?: HookValue

  /**
   * While the hook is suspended, this will return true
   */
  isSuspended: boolean

  /**
   * If the hook was destroyed (by error or externally), this will return true
   */
  isDestroyed: boolean

  /**
   * Resolves after all cleanup functions have run
   */
  isDestroyedPromise: Promise<unknown> | undefined

  /**
   * Re-run the hook with new props
   */
  render: RenderFn<Props, HookValue>

  /**
   * Re-run the hook with (partially) new props.
   */
  update: UpdateFn<Props, HookValue>

  /**
   * Subscribe to hook updates
   */
  on: <T extends keyof SubscriptionTypes>(
    type: T,
    subscription: SubscriptionTypes<HookValue>[T]
  ) => UnsubscribeFn

  /**
   * Unsubscribe from hook updates
   */
  off: <T extends keyof SubscriptionTypes>(
    type: T,
    subscription: SubscriptionTypes<HookValue>[T]
  ) => void

  /**
   * Destroy the hook.
   * This will run all cleanup functions and reject the value promise
   */
  destroy(reason?: unknown): Promise<unknown>
}