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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

Working with global state management issues

React is designed around the concept of components. In the component model, everything is expected to be reusable. Global state is something that exists outside of components. It's often true that we should avoid using a global state where possible because it requires an extra dependency on a component. However, a global state is sometimes very handy and allows us to be more productive. For some app requirements, global state fits well.

There are two challenges when designing a global state:

  • The first challenge is how to read a global state.

Global state tends to have multiple values. It's often the case that a component using a global state doesn't need all the values in it. If a component re-renders when a global state is changed but the changed values are not relevant to the component, it's an extra re-render. Extra re-renders are not desirable, and global state libraries should provide a solution...