Full Stack Development with JHipster

State management with Redux and friends

React provides basic state management within React components, but sometimes it is not sufficient, especially when your application needs to share state between multiple components. State management solutions like Flux, Redux, and MobX and quite popular in the React world and JHipster uses Redux as the state management layer.

When should you use the React component state?

• If the variable can always be calculated using a prop: Don't use component state, calculate the variable during rendering
• If the variable is not used in rendering but to hold data: Don't use component state, use private class fields
• If the variable is obtained from an API and is required by more than one component: Don't use component  ...