useFormik best practices

Question

The formik documentation seems to discourage use of the useFormik hook - but the entire Getting Started tutorial exclusively uses useFormik - so I'm not sure how to proceed - it's very confusing. Is there a downside of using useFormik if I don't need connect, FastField, ErrorMessage, etc.

Answer 1

I don't think it discourages you to use useFormik, but in most of the use cases it's not necessary, as you won't get any perks of using context api. Field, FieldArray, etc uses formik context internally so you won't be able to use these components. But in my opinion by using this useFormik hook you'll be creating more of your own implementation for these kind of components. But it doesn't hurt to learn that as well as internals of Formik are based on this hook.