While viewing PDFs might not be the most exciting problem that we get to tackle as developers, chances are that—eventually—you’ll need to include a PDF in your React application. When you do, there’s no easier way to handle it than the KendoReact PDF Viewer component.
React Hooks aim to solve the difficulties of logic reuse by enabling us to write components that have access to features like state, context, lifecycle methods, ref, etc. In this article, we’ll focus on the powerful useEffect hook, which allows us to perform side effects in our function components.