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React Context + useReducer - Still to this day my favorite way of managing global state in React, no extra dependencies, no learning curve, it's all there built-in

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[–] RadiantDew@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just curious - have you applied this in big React applications?

The reason I'm asking is because all context consumers get re-rendered immediately upon context value update. It might be ok for small apps but bigger apps can suffer.

[–] cufta22@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

Small to medium this can definitely work, large scale ( ex. Airbnb ) still works better with redux but i still see people misusing redux in smaller apps where you don't really need it

It's not just redux people really like to overengineer stuff nowadays

[–] ElkanNixed@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

It really depends on what kind of state you're storing. For UI or other client stuff usually a context provider is enough. For server data/state I started using React Query a lot more. It syncs server data across components that use the same cache key, which is really powerful.