React 16.8 welcomed the dawn of Hooks. This new addition is both a new concept and pragmatic approach that helps you use state and lifecycle methods behavior in functional React components, that is, without writing a class. The intention to implement this new feature in React ecosystem is to benefit all the community.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.crowdbotics.com/react-hooks-basics-building-a-react-native-app-with-react-hooks/