This module looks at how to manage state in React. You’ll be looking at state management, context, and reducers.
Learning Objectives
The objectives of this module are to provide you with an understanding of:
- State Management
- Context
- How to create and provide context
- Reducers
- How to provide dispatch
Intended Audience
This learning path is aimed at all who wish to learn how to use the ReactJS framework.
Prerequisites
It is essential you understand the face of contemporary web development to attend this course. We insist upon JavaScript experience, along with good HTML and CSS skills.
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- [Narrator] Now that we've abstracted state from components into context, we need to look further into how we can obtain initial values and update state. One strategy we can use here is to leverage to power of reducers. Reducers are not a concept that are exclusive to react. In fact they are basically a JavaScript function. The idea of a reducer is that it takes the previous state and an action and returns a brand new state based on these arguments. There are two basic principles for using reducers, but they're a good line to follow wherever you may use state. The first is that state should never be mutated. It should always be reset, even if the state is the same. The second principle is that the previous state can be used as part of the new state by using JavaScript spread operator. If you aren't familiar with the spread operator I suggest you pause the video and go and look it up. To use reducer, you need to be able to dispatch actions from components in the app, recognize that that has happened, and then be able to respond to them appropriately.
Lectures
Introduction to State Management - Context - How to Create and Provide Context - Consume Context - Actions in Reducers - The useReducer Hook - Providing Dispatch
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