React re-write componentWillReceiveProps in useEffect

Question

So I am re-writing a component with hooks, and I ran into an interesting challenge, I need to mimick some old behaviour of componentWillReceiveProps with the

Answer 1

You can create custom hook:

function usePrevious(value) {
  const ref = useRef();
  useEffect(() => {
    ref.prevLateVal = value;
  });
  return ref.prevLateVal;
}

and get it used in useEffect()

const Component = (props) => {
    const currentLateValue = get(`lateMinutes[${bookingId}].value`, props)
    const prevLateVal = usePrevious(currentLateValue);
    useEffect(() => {
        if(prevLateVal !== currentLateValue) {
         // process here
        }
    }, [currentLateValue]) // This will be executed only if currentLateValue changes.
}