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react-hooks-best-practices
Provides React patterns for hooks, effects, refs, and component design. Covers escape hatches, anti-patterns, and correct effect usage. Use when reading or writing React components with hooks or effects.
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# React Hooks Best Practices
## Pair with TypeScript
When working with React, always load both this skill and `typescript-best-practices` together. TypeScript patterns (type-first development, discriminated unions, Zod validation) apply to React code.
## Core Principle: Effects Are Escape Hatches
Effects let you "step outside" React to synchronize with external systems. **Most component logic should NOT use Effects.** Before writing an Effect, ask: "Is there a way to do this without an Effect?"
## When to Use Effects
Effects are for synchronizing with **external systems**:
- Subscribing to browser APIs (WebSocket, IntersectionObserver, resize)