ts-brand VS react-use

The closest way to get nominal typing in TypeScript is with type branding. I haven’t actually used this small library, but it illustrates the idea: https://github.com/kourge/ts-brand

For this reason I've actually started to enjoy the idea of branded types. Instead of passing around entity IDs as numbers you can have the compiler ensure that you get a specific kind of number, or at least have to explicitly cast to get around this limitation.

There is a way to make TypeScript understand that we want a particular type—use branding, branded types. Branding enables to keep track of exactly how types are used, but makes the code a little more complicated.

Discover a collection of custom React hooks for supercharging your app's functionality.

How do these compare with the current heavyweight library?

https://github.com/streamich/react-use

What's the benefit over useAsync and friends?

try this one: https://github.com/streamich/react-use/blob/master/docs/useSetState.md

One use case for the useWindowSize hook, which belongs to react-use, is for responsive design. The useWindowSize hook keeps track of the size of the browser window which makes it possible to apply different styles (layouts, displays, etc.) to user interfaces at different sizes. It returns an object containing the current width and height of the window.

Link: https://github.com/streamich/react-use

10-) Sometimes when hooks are not enough for you, you may feel the need to write Custom Hooks. A great Custom Hook List that will make your job easier react-use beautiful-react-hooks

What you are looking for can be achieved a few ways. React-use has global context hook that is pretty handy but I prefer to store the data in my db, then fetch the data into your sidebar component. React-use

React-use is the package that provides many useful react hooks that we can use to build the UI more efficiently. It provides the hooks related sensors, ui, animations, side-effects, lifecycles, state and etc.