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What are React Hooks? The preferred way to create components in React nowadays are functional components. React Component often have an inner state. They show an image or a text or other UI elements depending on user actions. User actions like clicking a button can change the inner state of a component. In the early days using "evil" 🙃 class components it was easy to hold the state within the component. You had a "state" class property and a "setState" class method to change the state. import React,{Component} from 'react'; class App extends Component { constructor(){ super() // Here I set sth. in my state this.state={ text : 'Welcome to Barbarian Developer' } } private sayGoodbye(){ // here I modify my component state this.setState({ text:'Bye Bye Earthling' }) } render() { return ( <div> <h1>{this.state.text}</h1> ...