React Hooks Error: Hooks can only be called inside the body of a function component

Question

I am getting this error when using the useState hook. I have this in it\'s basic form, looking at the react docs for a reference, but am still getting this erro

Answer 1

I experienced this error while using Parcel's Hot Module Replacement, and fixed by updating react-dom to it's alpha version:

yarn add react-dom@16.7.0-alpha.0

See this issue.