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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. ...

dAVE Inden • Sep 24 '19

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.

Sung M. Kim • Sep 24 '19

This is a nice tip, Rane 🙂

Alexl • Nov 7 '20

TYSM

Samar Panda • Jan 22 '20

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

Alexi Canales • Feb 1 '20

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!

Jonatan • Mar 23 '20

Thank you Rane!

seyoongit • Oct 23 '19

Thank you Rane!

Greg • Apr 20 '20

Thanks Rane, great advice, i needed exactly it.

Marcelo Lynx • Jan 14 '20

Thanks Rane, you helped me a lot!

Niki Ahlskog • Mar 18 '20

Thanks, saved a lot of time.

Steve Hsu • Jul 2 '20

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

Rey van den Berg • Jun 11 '20

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

Aniruddh Mukherjee • May 9 '20

Thanks a ton, Rane!

Agustinus Nathaniel • May 3 '20

Thanks so much, really appreciate the explanations

Talal Siddiqui • Apr 14 '20

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

Mannuel • Jun 30 '20

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