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Discussion on: Write Custom Hooks in React

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Pritam Patil •

Wouldn't it be better to return an object from a custom hook rather than an array?

So instead of returning like this -

return [todos, addTodo, toggleTodo]
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We could choose to return -

return  { todos, addTodo, toggleTodo }
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This way I don't have to worry about the position at which my todos or method addToDo is accessible?

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marques woodson •

I don't know if I'd say one way is better than the other. I return arrays sometimes if there aren't a lot of objects being returned, but once I get more than 3 I would probably switch to returning an object. I also use a lot of Typescript, so defining the return type helps with not mixing up variables.