How can I access a hover state in reactjs?

Question

React components expose all the standard Javascript mouse events in their top-level interface. Of course, you can still use :hover in your CSS, and that may be adequate for some of your needs, but for the more advanced behaviors triggered by a hover you'll need to use the Javascript. So to manage hover interactions, you'll want to use onMouseEnter and onMouseLeave. You then attach them to handlers in your component like so:

<ReactComponent
    onMouseEnter={() => this.someHandler}
    onMouseLeave={() => this.someOtherHandler}
/>

You'll then use some combination of state/props to pass changed state or properties down to your child React components.

ReactJs defines the following synthetic events for mouse events:

onClick onContextMenu onDoubleClick onDrag onDragEnd onDragEnter onDragExit
onDragLeave onDragOver onDragStart onDrop onMouseDown onMouseEnter onMouseLeave
onMouseMove onMouseOut onMouseOver onMouseUp

As you can see there is no hover event, because browsers do not define a hover event natively.

You will want to add handlers for onMouseEnter and onMouseLeave for hover behavior.

ReactJS Docs - Events

For having hover effect you can simply try this code

import React from "react";
  import "./styles.css";

    export default function App() {

      function MouseOver(event) {
        event.target.style.background = 'red';
      }
      function MouseOut(event){
        event.target.style.background="";
      }
      return (
        <div className="App">
          <button onMouseOver={MouseOver} onMouseOut={MouseOut}>Hover over me!</button>
        </div>
      );
    }

Or if you want to handle this situation using useState() hook then you can try this piece of code

import React from "react";
import "./styles.css";


export default function App() {
   let [over,setOver]=React.useState(false);

   let buttonstyle={
    backgroundColor:''
  }

  if(over){
    buttonstyle.backgroundColor="green";
  }
  else{
    buttonstyle.backgroundColor='';
  }

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <button style={buttonstyle}
      onMouseOver={()=>setOver(true)} 
      onMouseOut={()=>setOver(false)}
      >Hover over me!</button>
    </div>
  );
}

Both of the above code will work for hover effect but first procedure is easier to write and understand

I know the accepted answer is great but for anyone who is looking for a hover like feel you can use setTimeout on mouseover and save the handle in a map (of let's say list ids to setTimeout Handle). On mouseover clear the handle from setTimeout and delete it from the map

onMouseOver={() => this.onMouseOver(someId)}
onMouseOut={() => this.onMouseOut(someId)

And implement the map as follows:

onMouseOver(listId: string) {
  this.setState({
    ... // whatever
  });

  const handle = setTimeout(() => {
    scrollPreviewToComponentId(listId);
  }, 1000); // Replace 1000ms with any time you feel is good enough for your hover action
  this.hoverHandleMap[listId] = handle;
}

onMouseOut(listId: string) {
  this.setState({
    ... // whatever
  });

  const handle = this.hoverHandleMap[listId];
  clearTimeout(handle);
  delete this.hoverHandleMap[listId];
}

And the map is like so,

hoverHandleMap: { [listId: string]: NodeJS.Timeout } = {};

I prefer onMouseOver and onMouseOut because it also applies to all the children in the HTMLElement. If this is not required you may use onMouseEnter and onMouseLeave respectively.