How I Built a Reusable Fetch Hook in React and Published It to npm

As a frontend developer, I constantly find myself writing useEffect blocks to fetch data in React. After copy-pasting the same logic a dozen times, I decided to create a clean, lightweight hook — react-url-fetcher.

In this post, I’ll walk you through:

Why I built it

How it works

How to publish your own hook to npm

NPM