Hooks are a recent addition to React that enable more of your components to be written as functions by providing less complex alternatives to class features. One significant advantage is that typing function components in TypeScript is simpler and more direct.

It’s common for a modern single-page application (SPA) to fetch data from the server via a REST API call. There are, though, many challenges related to this approach, one of which is handling long-running queries. Let us explain how we rely on the RxJS library to help us with this task.