# useModal

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Hooks that exposes Modalfy's API. The object returned by `useModal()`is covered in [, you can get some nice autocomplete by utilizing **`ModalProp`**](/react-native-modalfy/api/types/modalprop.md).
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{% hint style="danger" %} <mark style="color:red;">**Note:**</mark> <mark style="color:red;"></mark><mark style="color:red;">Prefer</mark> [<mark style="color:red;">**`withModal()`**</mark>](/react-native-modalfy/api/withmodal.md) <mark style="color:red;">HOC if you're using a Class component.</mark>
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```typescript
const useModal = <P extends ModalfyParams>(): UsableModalProp<P> => {
  const context: UsableModalProp<P> = React.useContext(ModalContext)
  const { closeModal, closeModals, closeAllModals } = modalfy<P>()
  return {
    closeAllModals: closeAllModals: closeAllModals as UsableModalProp<P>['closeAllModals'],

    closeModals: closeModals as UsableModalProp<P>['closeModals'],

    closeModal: closeModal as UsableModalProp<P>['closeModal'],

    currentModal: context.currentModal,

    openModal: context.openModal,
  }
}
```

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{% embed url="<https://github.com/colorfy-software/react-native-modalfy/blob/main/src/lib/useModal.ts>" %}

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If you're using TypeScript and have [your params types](/react-native-modalfy/guides/typing.md#modalprop), you can get some nice autocomplete by utilizing`useModal()`like this:

```typescript
import { ModalStackParamsList } from 'App'
// ...
const { openModal } = useModal<ModalStackParamsList>()
```

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