Learn React Hooks: useImperativeHandle - Simply Explained!

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In this video we will learn about React hooks, starting with useImperativeHandle. This powerful React hook will allow you to expose certain functions from a child component to the parent component via a ref. It is extremely useful in situations where you want to call some behaviour in a child from a parent without explicitly providing a callback from the parent. In this video, we look at all of the use cases for useImperativeHandle and how it works!
In this new React world, hooks are here to stay, so it's best to learn them! In this tutorial I demonstrate the useRef React hook, and I explain it very simply and in a way that is easy to understand. Enjoy!

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[@tomasburian6550]

I have never seen this hook before and I just ran into it in my company's project. This video helped me a lot to get up to speed. Thanks!

[@codecleric4972]

A senior engineer at my job implemented a solution with this to solve a problem I was racking my brain over. It's really powerful and good to know about. This needs to be common knowledge

[@firekeeper7461]

I searched many videos about this hook on my native language but these guys couldn't explain it simple. Thank you!

[@rohansachdeva627]

super clear man!

[@yitzchaksviridyuk932]

Dude are you kidding me? I didn't know this existed, so at one point, I actually implemented an event bus class just to allow the parent to rerender specific children. I really didn't want to make the class, since I didn't want to start doing things that weren't "React-y" which could confuse other devs; but I didn't think I had a choice. I also did a ton of searching, but maybe I didn't ask the right questions, since I only kept seeing people say that I need to lift the state up etc. Either way, thanks a lot for this video. I kept thinking, "It's so weird React doesn't have a built in way to solve this issue." Good to know that isn't the case. 😄

[@cosdensolutions]

haha yeah, it's not that popular unfortunately, and a lot of people don't know it exists. I myself only found out about it at the beginning of this year hahah

[@yitzchaksviridyuk932]

@@cosdensolutions I hear man. Thanks again!

[@faraonch]

I should have watched this video BEFORE my last two nights! Well explained!

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I saved this video... was awesome...

[@opencode1]

Really love this type of videos, basic css but big functinality explanation. thank you for your effort

[@pallavidas2648]

Amazing.. you made it so simple to understand! Thank you.

[@smokinjoe3000]

holy moly, this is such a great react hook! once again, you teach me something new every day

[@pauloviniciuscoral1128]

And this also helps with the Single responsibility principle. Great video.

[@artursavchuk2363]

omg, I have thought so many times about this functionality, and I was so disappointed that react can't do it. Thank you so much for this information, this is very useful 👍

[@ytra1001]

Thanks you make things look simple

[@camilo5821]

With context is so useful

[@monterourena]

Thank you so much for sharing this incredibly useful hook! I wish I had known about it sooner. Your content is a masterpiece

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[@cosdensolutions]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@hikki2566]

Thanks!

[@a.murshed8136]

Great tutorial as usual. I have a question here, what is the difference if the child function is defined with ForwardRef or without?

[@CodingEnjoyer]

Impressive !!

[@PalladinGOLD]

Your videos are awesome. Thanks

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Great content cosden

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Thanks for making this.

[@icoderdev]

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[@lukasluftlaufer1093]

Amazing. Thanks for the great explanation!

[@swdotdev]

Great content again! Thank you very much dude!

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lol love the slide-in of the subscribe pitch ;)

[@cosdensolutions]

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Cosden ❤...was out for a while. Hope i didn't miss alot.😊

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Great job homie

[@vasiapypochkin3241]

Привет, в setCount можно было передавать callback, аргумент которого является prevState. для гарантии того что count является актуальным значением. p.s. спасибо за видео :D

[@elozinoovedhe]

Well explained!!!

[@Vishal360]

Straight to damnn mind

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Subscribed 🤗

[@ExtraTurtle]

If I put the entire "counter" state in the parent, it would make every child component re-render, even when It doesn't use that state does this also happen with useImperativeHandle? When you click the button that runs counterRef.current.reset() will it also re-render the entire parent component? or is this also used as React.memo of some sort?

[@JacksonDiKey]

Cool stuff! Can u pls simply explaine how forwardRef working? it's a little bit tricky for use. Thnks!

[@badishammadache2922]

great video

[@clasesutnfrc8699]

02:38 Expose child's method to parent

[@MEZOMEZO2011]

I understood the concept but don't see how this will help in closed library components. Here you still needed to change the Counter component to be able to add the useImperative and accept the Ref as props. Or are you saying that the component in the library itself will have that set up by default?

[@cosdensolutions]

Yeah that's exactly what I meant! I didn't form it properly 😅

[@emaaadelgado]

is there any way to detect the changes on the child from the parent? using this way..

[@nguyenvannhat5114]

Please help. My current in ref of parent always null.

[@snatvb]

it's not so good concept as you think and makes inverted control that usually leads to a lot of bugs better is to create context and provide state with api from that useImperativeHandle needs to extends api of video tag for example, for make adapters

[@Shanksther3d]

Really enjoyed this video, very instructive 🙏🔥🔥 keep going. Ps: isSubrscribed(true) 😂👍

[@cosdensolutions]

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[@cordial]

Good explainer as ever. This seems rather anti-pattern, im not entirely sure in what instance it would be ok to use it.

[@cosdensolutions]

Yeah I get the anti pattern vibes but there are a lot of use cases! Most 3rd party libraries do it and also if you make some component you need to trigger from above this is great

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[@HAROLDDELROSARIO-j5c]

What if I pass the function as a property of the counter component? Is it better or not? Beginner nyehehe

[@cosdensolutions]

I go over this in the video :D

[@Ravi_Kaushik_Vlogs]

please creata a video of usecallback and usememo and react.memo with child component

[@cosdensolutions]

Already did ☺️

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"This is counter-intuitive" - heh

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