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Micro State Management with React Hooks

By : Daishi Kato
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Micro State Management with React Hooks

By: Daishi Kato

Overview of this book

State management is one of the most complex concepts in React. Traditionally, developers have used monolithic state management solutions. Thanks to React Hooks, micro state management is something tuned for moving your application from a monolith to a microservice. This book provides a hands-on approach to the implementation of micro state management that will have you up and running and productive in no time. You’ll learn basic patterns for state management in React and understand how to overcome the challenges encountered when you need to make the state global. Later chapters will show you how slicing a state into pieces is the way to overcome limitations. Using hooks, you'll see how you can easily reuse logic and have several solutions for specific domains, such as form state and server cache state. Finally, you'll explore how to use libraries such as Zustand, Jotai, and Valtio to organize state and manage development efficiently. By the end of this React book, you'll have learned how to choose the right global state management solution for your app requirement.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: React Hooks and Micro State Management
3
Part 2: Basic Approaches to the Global State
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Part 3: Library Implementations and Their Uses

Understanding module state and immutable state

Zustand is a library that's used to create a store that holds a state. It's primarily designed for module state, which means you define this store in a module and export it. It's based on the immutable state model, in which you are not allowed to modify state object properties. Updating states must be done by creating new objects, while unmodified state objects must be reused. The benefit of the immutable state model is that you only need to check state object referential equality to know if there's any update; you don't have to check equality deeply.

The following is a minimal example that can be used to create a count state. It takes a store creator function that returns an initial state:

// store.ts
import create from "zustand";
export const store = create(() => ({ count: 0 }));

store exposes some functions such as getState, setState, and subscribe. You can use getState to get the state...