Frameworkless Front-End Development: Do You Control Your Dependencies Or Are They Controlling You?

© Francesco Strazzullo 2019

F. StrazzulloFrameworkless Front-End Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4967-3_7

7. State Management

Francesco Strazzullo¹ 

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TREVISO, Treviso, Italy

 

In the previous chapters, you learned how to display data and how to manage user inputs, and made HTTP requests and managed routes. You can consider these skills the basic building blocks. But before you can actually start writing frameworkless code, you need to know how to manage the data (or the state) that links all of these elements together. In front-end applications or more generally, in all kinds of client applications (web, desktop, and mobile) effectively managing data is called state management .

State management doesn’t solve a new problem. Model-view-controller ...