Comment by danabramov

One pattern you might like to try in this kind of code is writing your heavy imperative logic in classes (not React class components! just normal classes), and then using Hooks very lightly to "connect" and "disconnect" things.

See here for some examples of how you can approach writing the same code in a few different ways -- maybe one of these styles will fit you better: https://react.dev/learn/reusing-logic-with-custom-hooks#ther...