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JS Bites: React hook is called in a function which is neither a React function or [sic] a custom React Hook

Rane Wallin on September 24, 2019

So, you've decided to dive into React Hooks. Things have been going well (hopefully) until you get a mysterious error similar to the one below. ...
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dAVE Inden

Great post. I ran into this very problem last week. I was surprised that my searching didn’t turn up a quick answer like this. Great idea on the series. I look forward to more.

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Sung M. Kim

This is a nice tip, Rane 🙂

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Steve Hsu

You solved my problem with a quick answer, Thanks Rane!!!

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Rey van den Berg

Yay. Such a simple thing. Such a simple solution. I guess I missed them specifying this in the documentation

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Samar Panda

Thanks Rane for this post. It helped me to address this issue.

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Alexi Canales

Thank you for the awesome article! I was referencing old code while building a new app. I was so stumped as to why I kept receiving this ambiguous error. Thank you!

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Jonatan

Thank you Rane!

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seyoongit

Thank you Rane!

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Greg

Thanks Rane, great advice, i needed exactly it.

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Marcelo Lynx

Thanks Rane, you helped me a lot!

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Niki Ahlskog

Thanks, saved a lot of time.

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Agustinus Nathaniel

Thanks so much, really appreciate the explanations

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Alexl

TYSM

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Aniruddh Mukherjee

Thanks a ton, Rane!

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Mannuel

amazing thank you, saved me from a ton of googling.

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Talal Siddiqui

Wonderfull. Thanks.
This was a very irritating issue. and your post help me a lot.