There was an article I read, maybe 3-ish years ago, that explained it very well. It had you actually build a hook from scratch (not a custom hook, like actually implementing hook-like behavior into JavaScript). It was great. I just tried looking it up but couldn't find it, if anyone knows what I'm talking about please link here.
Any chance it was https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/? You can't really have hooks without building an entire framework, because the framework has to have the preserve the execution context between renderings.
