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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
8
Part 3: Library Implementations and Their Uses

Handling structured data

An example that deals with a set of numbers is fairly easy. In reality, we need to handle objects, arrays, and a combination of them. Let's learn how to use Zustand by covering another example. This is a well-known Todo app example. It's an app where you can do the following things:

  • Create a new Todo item.
  • See the list of Todo items.
  • Toggle a Todo item's done status.
  • Remove a Todo item.

First, we must define some types before creating a store. The following is the type definition for a Todo object. It has the id, title, and done properties:

type Todo = {
  id: number;
  title: string;
  done: boolean;
};

Now, the StoreState type can be defined with Todo. The value part of the store is todos, which is a list of Todo items. In addition to this, there are three functions – addTodo, removeTodo, and toggleTodo – that can be used to manipulate the todos property:

type StoreState...