react-use/docs/useKeyPressEvent.md
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useKeyPressEvent

React UI sensor hook that detects when the user is pressing a specific key on their keyboard and fires a specified keyup and/or keydown effect. If you only need to retrieve the state, see useKeyPress.

Complex bindings like detecting when multiple keys are held down at the same time or requiring them to be held down in a specified order are also available via KeyboardJS key combos. Check its documentation for further details on how to make combo strings.

The first argument is the key(s) to watch. If only a second argument (a function) is passed, it will be used in the keydown event. On the other hand, if a second and third argument are passed, the second will be used in the keyup event and the third in the keydown event. Essentially, keydown takes precedence.

Requires keyboardjs:

npm add keyboardjs
# or
yarn add keyboardjs

Usage

import React, { useState } from React;
import { useKeyPressEvent } from "react-use";

const Demo = () => {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

  const increment = () => setCount(count => ++count);
  const decrement = () => setCount(count => --count);
  const reset = () => setCount(count => 0);

  useKeyPressEvent(']', increment, increment);
  useKeyPressEvent('[', decrement, decrement);
  useKeyPressEvent('r', reset);

  return (
    <div>
      <p>
        Try pressing <code>[</code>, <code>]</code>, and <code>r</code> to
        see the count incremented and decremented.</p>
      <p>Count: {count}</p>
    </div>
  );
};

Reference

useKeyPressEvent('<key>', onKeydown);
useKeyPressEvent('<key>', onKeyup, onKeydown);