Episode 12 - Redux Toolkit and State Management in React with Mark Erikson

05/24/22 • 42 min

Mark Erikson joins me to talk about state management in React. More especifically covering why Redux toolkit is such a great alternative to other libraries and the type of problems it solves.
We also get some insight into the origin of the current bad rep of Redux.
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20minJS - Episode 12 - Redux Toolkit and State Management in React with Mark Erikson

Transcript

Mark Erikson00:00:00.029

Context is like a dependency injection system. You put some value in at the top. It comes out at the bottom.

Mark Erikson00:00:09.705

It doesn't offer a way to update or store anything by itself.

Fernando Doglio00:00:22.964

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