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# [Custom Hooks in React: useFetch](https://blog.alyssaholland.me/custom-react-hooks-usefetch?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Retrieving data from an API is an extremely common task for a developer. Because this is such a frequent operation to complete, it's beneficial to abstract the internals and boilerplate of this functionality into a reusable hook. In this tutorial, yo...

Aug 8, 2022 · 7 min read · blog.alyssaholland.me  
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[Shashwat jaiswal](https://hashnode.com/@okayhead)

[Apr 16, 2024](https://hashnode.com/posts/custom-react-hooks-usefetch/62f116e1c1e76d621b3f76e3/comment/661e097d2fcb85005d08e752)

Thank you so much for this! I was really struggling with calling the custom hook at a later time. I kinda hit a dead end and thought I might better off writing the entire thing inside my component, but thanks to you.

Now my hook resides in a separate component, nice and neat.

[Alyssa Holland](https://hashnode.com/@AlyssaCodes)

[Apr 18, 2024](https://hashnode.com/posts/custom-react-hooks-usefetch/62f116e1c1e76d621b3f76e3/comment/661e097d2fcb85005d08e752#reply-66206c2ff109d86da9a92c72)

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