TIL - State Management In React & Redux
February 06, 2020
What follows is notes from a class. Incomplete thoughts & code that probably will only make sense to me. Given enough time, even that may be a stretch! Reference at your own risk 😂
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Why Manage State
We went through a few examples of difficult things about state:
- prop drilling is annoying
- you can lose your state if you change pages and the components are destroyed
So you can use the React Context API
Another way to manage state: unstated. It’s more robust than the Context API but less guns-blazing than Redux. There are lots of ways people have managed state over time.
Redux is the big banger
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Every store has management software which is the only thing that can change the state of that store. This management software is called a reducer.
Actions are the code we write which are fed to the reducers to affect state.