Can React context have state?

React’s Context API React Context allows us to have a state that can be seen globally to the entire application . We have to start with the context provider ( <Provider /> ) to define the data you want to be sending around and you need the context consumer ( <Consumer /> ) that grabs that data and uses it where called.

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Is context the same as state?

Context is a mechanism designed to store data, and alert consumers when that data has changed. This kind of sounds like state, but isn’t quite the same . Context doesn’t have any rules around telling the Provider component itself when a change has occurred.

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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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