What is Reactjs context API?

The React Context API is a way for a React app to effectively produce global variables that can be passed around . This is the alternative to “prop drilling” or moving props from grandparent to child to parent, and so on. Context is also touted as an easier, lighter approach to state management using Redux.

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Can we update state using context API?

To sum up, we are storing data in the state of the component in which we want to use context, and we create a function that can modify this state . Then, you pass the state and the function as context values. It then becomes possible from the child to get the modification function and to use it to update your context.

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Can I use context for state management?

It is a way to make a particular data available to all the components no matter how they are nested. Context helps you broadcast the data and changes happening to that data, to all the components. That’s why it is a very useful state management hook , when it comes to use cases like we discussed above.25 May 2021

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