Summary of Learn React Hooks: useContext - Simply Explained!
React context API allows for storing and accessing data across components without prop drilling.
Prop drilling involves passing data through multiple components, leading to messy and hard-to-maintain code.
Context provides a way to share state among components without the need for prop drilling.
A demonstration is shown with a simple application passing user data through components.
To implement context, a context file is created, a context provider is wrapped around components, and a custom hook is created to handle context logic.
The custom hook ensures that the user data is always available and throws an error if it is not.
By using context and custom hooks, components can directly access shared data without the need for prop passing.
Viewers are encouraged to understand and experiment with context, and to consider when to use it over state management libraries.
Speaker
- Bender's Cousin of Cousin Solutions
Notable Quotes
— 00:19 — « context in react honestly the simple way for you to think about this is just think of it as a way for you to store data any kind of data and have it be accessible to components no matter where they are in your application. »
— 01:10 — « context is a way to avoid that is a way to have some state that is accessible by multiple components without having to do all of this prop drilling all of these chains of props. »
— 02:10 — « sidebar and profile are complaining that we need the user which we dont have but thats fine because were also going to remove the user from here. »
Category
Educational