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React is a fantastic Javascript library for building rich user interfaces, it provides a great component abstraction for organising your interfaces into well-functioning code but what about the look and feel of the app? In the browser, the look and feel of the app are mostly defined by CSS which is a means of styling our web applications and websites. There are various ways of styling React components from using stylesheets to using external styling libraries etc.

When React 16.8 was released officially in early February 2019, it shipped with an additional API that lets you use state and other features in React without writing a class. This additional API is called Hooks and they're becoming popular in the React ecosystem, from open sourced projects to being used in production applications.

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At the time of writing this, I haven't found a topic for this article yet and I don't want to use the classic 'My year in review' so whenever you read this article just know that I still don't have a title and I have left it at what it is.

When React 16.8 was released officially in early February 2019, it shipped with an additional API that lets you use state and other features in React without writing a class. This additional API is called Hooks and they're becoming popular in the React ecosystem, from open sourced projects to being used in production applications.