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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

Understanding React Tracked

We have been learning about several global state libraries, but React Tracked is slightly different from the ones we have learned about so far. React Tracked doesn't provide state functionality, but what it does provide is render optimization functionality. We call this functionality state usage tracking.

Let's recap how React Context behaves because one of the use cases of state usage tracking in React Tracked is for a React Context.

Suppose we define a Context with createContext as follows:

const NameContext = createContext([
  { firstName: 'react', lastName: 'hooks' },
  () => {},
]);

createContext takes an initial value, which is an array in this case. The first item in the array is an initial state object. The second item in the array, () => {}, is a dummy updating function.

The reason we put such an array as the initial value is to match the return value of useState. We often define...