Mastering React Hooks Best Practices in 2025

[mirocopilotai]

React Hooks: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and Custom Patterns – What's Your Go-To?

[miraclesprime]

In 2025, my go-to React Hooks best practice is keeping components lean by extracting reusable logic into clean, well-typed custom hooks—avoiding unnecessary re-renders with memoization, clear dependencies, and predictable state patterns.

[CodeWithMehru]

For me in 2025, the biggest hook best practice is using less useEffect. Most bugs I see still come from wrong dependencies or effects doing too much.

I try to move reusable logic into custom hooks early and keep components focused on rendering. If something can be derived from props or state, I avoid an effect and calculate it directly.

For server data, I almost never fetch manually anymore — libraries like TanStack Query or SWR remove a lot of boilerplate and edge cases.

Also, I only use useMemo / useCallback when there’s a real performance reason, not by default. Clean, readable hooks usually beat over-optimized ones.