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Implement state with the useState hook

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Implement state with the useState hook

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- [Instructor] In this video we're going to implement State for the first time with the help of React's useState hook. Hooks are a relatively recent and nifty addition to React. Their function is to let your function components access features that used to be accessible only by class components. State is one of those features, and as we know, state lets the component track the condition of data and update itself when those data change. So all that said, let's give this a whirl. Looking at how things are right now, there are a few pieces of data that we're going to need to track. Let's go with the current color of the shoe, the currently selected size, and all of the sizes that are available. We're using a hard coded data source right now for all of these sizes, but theoretically they might change if we were accessing an API, so we'll treat them as something that might be changeable at some point. So current color, current size, all sizes. Over here in my code, we're going to scroll…

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