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use-constant
Advanced tools
React hook for creating a value exactly once. useMemo
doesn't give this guarantee unfortunately - https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#how-to-create-expensive-objects-lazily
Install the package
npm install use-constant
# OR
yarn add use-constant
In your code
import useConstant from 'use-constant';
const MyComponent = () => {
// Give useConstant() a function which should be be executed exactly once and
// return in it your constant value
const myConstantValue = useConstant(() => 42);
// ...
FAQs
React hook for creating a value exactly once.
The npm package use-constant receives a total of 15,062 weekly downloads. As such, use-constant popularity was classified as popular.
We found that use-constant demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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