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Where in the source is useState defined?
About facebook/react · 2 messages · last activity 7/19/2026
Where in the source is useState defined?
useState is defined in [packages/react/src/ReactHooks.js:L66-L72].
It's a hook that accepts an initial state and returns a dispatcher's useState implementation:
export function useState<S>(
initialState: (() => S) | S,
): [S, Dispatch<BasicStateAction<S>>] {
const dispatcher = resolveDispatcher();
return dispatcher.useState(initialState);
}
The function resolves a dispatcher and delegates to its useState method, which handles the actual state management logic.
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