Simple hook to deal with async function calls

For smaller react projects I wanted something simple to deal with asynchronous function calls like fetch API. Rather than littering the component with useState for dealing with loader, error and response I wrote a really simple hook

import { useState, useCallback } from 'react';

function useAsync(handleAsync, initialResponse = {}) {
  const [isLoading, setLoading] = useState(false);
  const [error, setError] = useState(false);
  const [response, setResponse] = useState(initialResponse);

  const fetchValue = useCallback(
    async (options) => {
      setLoading(true);
      setError(false);

      try {
        const apiResponse = await handleAsync(options);
        setResponse(apiResponse);
        setLoading(false);
      } catch (error) {
        setError(true);
        setLoading(false);
        setResponse(error);
      }
    },
    [setError, setLoading, setResponse, handleAsync],
  );

  return {
    response,
    isLoading,
    error,
    fetchValue,
  };
}

export default useAsync;

So I can use this as follows

const { response, fetchValue, isLoading, error } = useAsync(signupUser);

const handleSubmit = useCallback(() => {
  fetchValue({ email, password });
}, [email, password, fetchValue]);

export const signupUser = async ({ email, password }) => {
  const response = await fetch(`dev.to/signup`, {
    credentials: 'include',
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Content-type': 'application/json',
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      email,
      password,
    }),
  });

  if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(response);
  }

  return response.json();
};

react-async does provide something similar but it had lot of other functionality that I won't need. So going with a simple hook instead of a complete library just for this alone seemed like a better choice for me.

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