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useHookAtTopLevel

Diagnostic Category: lint/correctness/useHookAtTopLevel

Since: v1.0.0 Sources:

Enforce that all React hooks are being called from the Top Level component functions.

This rule should be used only in React projects.

To understand why this required see https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-rules.html#only-call-hooks-at-the-top-level

Examples

Section titled Examples

Invalid

Section titled Invalid
function Component1({ a }) {
    if (a == 1) {
        useEffect();
    }
}
code-block.js:3:9 lint/correctness/useHookAtTopLevel ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ⚠ This hook is being called conditionally, but all hooks must be called in the exact same order in every component render.
  
    1 │ function Component1({ a }) {
    2 │     if (a == 1) {
  > 3 │         useEffect();
      │         ^^^^^^^^^
    4 │     }
    5 │ }
  
  ℹ For React to preserve state between calls, hooks needs to be called unconditionally and always in the same order.
  
  ℹ See https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-rules.html#only-call-hooks-at-the-top-level
  
function Component1({ a }) {
    if (a != 1) {
        return;
    }


    useEffect();
}
code-block.js:6:5 lint/correctness/useHookAtTopLevel ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ⚠ This hook is being called conditionally, but all hooks must be called in the exact same order in every component render.
  
    4 │     }
    5 │ 
  > 6 │     useEffect();
      │     ^^^^^^^^^
    7 │ }
    8 │ 
  
  ℹ Hooks should not be called after an early return.
  
    1 │ function Component1({ a }) {
  > 2 │     if (a != 1) {
      │                  
  > 3 │         return;
      │         ^^^^^^^
    4 │     }
    5 │ 
  
  ℹ For React to preserve state between calls, hooks needs to be called unconditionally and always in the same order.
  
  ℹ See https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-rules.html#only-call-hooks-at-the-top-level

Valid

Section titled Valid
function Component1() {
    useEffect();
}
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