with-hooks-support v0.4.2

withHooksSupport

Higher-order component for adding hooks support to class components. Check out the Code Sandbox Demo.

class FancyInput extends React.Component {
  render() {
    // `useFormInput` returns an object with `value` and `onChange` attributes.
    const inputProps = useFormInput();

    return <input {...inputProps} />;
  }
}

export default withHooksSupport(FancyInput);

Usage

npm install with-hooks-support

Then import

import withHooksSupport from 'with-hooks-support';

NOTE: The React Hooks feature is currently only available in certain alpha versions of React.

npm install react@^16.7.0-alpha.1

Introduction

React hooks (introduced in react@17.0.0-alpha) lets you use state and other React features without writing a class ie. in functional components. The result is cleaner, more readable code where the code for a single feature is colocated instead of being spread over several life-cycle methods.

Now that you have rewritten all your features as custom hooks, how do you use them in your legacy class components? Using the withHooksSupport higher order component, that's how!

Wrap your classes with withHooksSupport, and use hooks in the render method without any issues.

class ClassComponent extends React.PureComponent {
  render() {
    const [width, setWidth] = useState(window.innerWidth);
    const handleWindowResize = () => setWidth(window.innerWidth);
    useEffect(() => {
      window.addEventListener('resize', handleWindowResize);
      return () => window.removeEventListener('resize', handleWindowResize);
    });

    return <div>The window width is {width}</div>;
  }
}

export default withHooksSupport(ClassComponent);

Awesome!