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Trade-offs of Redux

To wrap up, let us summarize the pros and cons of using Redux in a web application. First, let us start with the positives:

• Provides a certain project structure that allows us to easily extend and modify code later on
• Fewer possibilities for errors in our code
• Better performance than using React Context for state
• Makes the App component much simpler (offloads state management and action creators to Redux)

Redux is a perfect fit for larger projects that deal with complex state changes, and state that is used across many components.

However, there are also downsides to using Redux:

• Writing boilerplate code required
• Project structure becomes more complicated
• Redux requires a wrapper component (Provider) to connect the ...