tl;dr
Calling hooks conditionally breaks the rules, yes.
Wrap the hook with a component and render that component optionally to toggle the usage of the hook.
The rules of hooks are somewhat reflections of the constraints of this React API.
Example final full code here.
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Functional bits
Towards a Functional Programming Style
Here are some of my top favorite personal utilities to make your programming style more functional. They increase the readability of my code and help me transforming those less pretty pieces of logic into something that I’m proud of and that I can confidently change by merely modifying a line...
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Keeping the web compatible for developers
Yet another Internet Explorer frustrating episode
It seems inevitable for me to fall into some browser compatibility trap from time to time. The last “blogpost worthy” one that I faced was fun, but still, it was traceable through the standard browser compatibility resources such as caniuse.com or MDN Web Docs browser compatibility tables.
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Better imports with webpack resolve.alias
I want to write a short article where once more I emphasize one of the superpowers of webpack.
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Unit testing with fixtures unleashed
From project to project, I’ve seen applications structured in many different ways, but most of the time, no matter how different the software was, the testing techniques and structures were almost always the same. In this article, I want to share with you an experienced-based journey on how we can...
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Unrevealed tips for unit testing with Jest
As a front-end engineer by profession, and having a few JavaScript open source projects myself, I’ve faced some challenges around unit testing, in my particular case, with Jest.
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Browser polyfill madness, Mozilla and IE
Recently I have experienced the real pain of polyfilling Number.isSafeInteger method.
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Destructuring in JavaScript: the not so good parts
Generally speaking, I would say everybody loves the destructuring assignment, and for good reasons. Next, I list some of the amazing things one can achieve with destructuring.
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The hidden potential of webpack DefinePlugin
The odds are high that you’re using webpack to bundle your assets. If you’re looking into an excellent way to feed environment variables to your applications, DefinePlugin might well be the answer.
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Presenting babel-plugin-cloudinary
During the past two months, I’ve been developing a side project at work, this started with me doing a simple refactor task. At the time I looked at the solution we had in place, and it was dirty, but it was necessary to skip some considerable performance penalty. Maybe it...
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