Chapter 5: Sharing Component State with Context and Subscription
In the previous two chapters, we learned how to use Context and Subscription for a global state. Each has different benefits: Context allows us to provide different values for different subtrees, while Subscriptions prevent extra re-renders.
In this chapter, we will learn a new approach: combining React Context and Subscriptions. The combination will give us the benefits of each, which means:
- Context can provide a global state to a subtree and the Context provider can be nested. Context allows us to control a global state in the React component lifecycle like the useState hook.
- On the other hand, Subscriptions allow us to control re-renders, which is not possible with a single ...
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