Hooks How To: Surprising SPFx still generates react class- based components in 2022!

This is an excerpt from one of my longer videos. Watch the full video here 👉    • Using React Hooks in the SharePoint Framew...  

The current version of the Yeoman generator for the SPFx still uses the older-style React class components. Because that’s what you get by default, that’s what most developers end up using.

But functional components enabled by React hooks have become widely popular… and I get a lot of questions on how to use React hooks in your SharePoint projects!

So… until Microsoft updates the Yeoman generator, I’m going to show you how you change your new projects to React hooks in just a few minutes.

And then, I’ll show you the basics of hooks with a simple example