قراءة الحالة باستخدام useSelector

useSelector is a hook from react-redux that lets a component read data from the Redux store. It accepts a selector function as its argument. The selector receives the entire root state and returns only the piece of data that component needs. When that piece of data changes, React re-renders the component automatically.

Call useSelector inside a functional component, passing an arrow function that extracts the value you need from the global state. The hook subscribes to the store and triggers a re-render only when the selected value changes, avoiding unnecessary re-renders if unrelated parts of the state update.

In TypeScript projects, use the pre-typed useAppSelector hook you created in the hooks file. This eliminates the need to annotate the state parameter every time you call the hook. Your editor will also autocomplete state property names, making it faster to write selectors correctly.

A selector is simply a function that takes the Redux state as an argument and returns a derived value. Keeping selectors separate from components promotes reuse — many components can use the same selector. You can also compose selectors to derive more complex computed values from raw state data.

useSelector uses strict equality (===) to compare the previous and next selected values. The component re-renders only when the returned value changes. If your selector returns an object or array literal (like state.items.filter(...)), it will return a new reference on every call, causing unnecessary re-renders. Keep selectors returning primitives or memoize them.

The reselect library (included in RTK) provides createSelector for building memoized selectors. A memoized selector caches its last result and only recomputes when its input selectors return different values. This prevents expensive derivations from running on every state update when only unrelated parts of state changed.

You can drill as deep as needed into the state tree inside a selector. For complex state shapes, chain property accesses carefully and handle optional chaining (?.) to avoid runtime errors if a slice has not yet loaded data. Keep selectors readable by giving them meaningful names that describe what data they return.

A single component can call useSelector multiple times to read different pieces of state, or you can call it once and destructure from a selector that returns an object. Calling it multiple times is preferred because each subscription is independent — the component only re-renders when one of the selected values actually changes.

A popular pattern is to define selectors inside the slice file alongside the reducers. Prefix them with select and export them named. This co-location makes it easy to find and update a selector if the state shape changes, since both the reducer and the selector live in the same file.

If you must return an object from useSelector, use the shallowEqual comparator as the second argument. This compares each property of the returned object separately, preventing re-renders when the object's contents have not changed but the reference is new. Import shallowEqual from react-redux.

The older connect(mapStateToProps) higher-order component pattern achieves the same goal as useSelector but with more boilerplate. Hooks are the modern, preferred approach because they require less code, work inside any functional component, and compose naturally with other hooks. The connect API is still supported but not recommended for new code.

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In this lesson you learned: useSelector subscribes a component to a slice of Redux state and re-renders when that value changes, selector functions keep data derivation logic reusable and testable, and createSelector memoizes expensive computations to prevent unnecessary re-renders. Next up we explore async thunks with createAsyncThunk.