# React useOnWindowResize hook

Canonical: https://www.wiki.jodisand.me/snippets/react/useonwindowresize/


Executes a callback whenever the window is resized.

- Use the `useRef()` hook to create a variable, `listener`, which will hold the listener reference.
- Use the `useEffect()` hook and `EventTarget.addEventListener()` to listen to the `'resize'` event of the `Window` global object.
- Use `EventTarget.removeEventListener()` to remove any existing listeners and clean up when the component unmounts.

```jsx
const useOnWindowResize = callback => {
  const listener = React.useRef(null);

  React.useEffect(() => {
    if (listener.current)
      window.removeEventListener('resize', listener.current);
    listener.current = window.addEventListener('resize', callback);
    return () => {
      window.removeEventListener('resize', listener.current);
    };
  }, [callback]);
};
```

```jsx
const App = () => {
  useOnWindowResize(() =>
    console.log(`window size: (${window.innerWidth}, ${window.innerHeight})`)
  );
  return <p>Resize the window and check the console</p>;
};

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));
```