What is Global State Management?
Global state refers to data that needs to be accessible across different components in your React application. Instead of passing props down through multiple levels of components (a process known as “prop drilling”), you can use the global state to share data efficiently. It eliminates the need for prop drilling and provides a cleaner way to manage shared state across components. You can consider useContext as a simple state as we create using useState. The only thing context will do is to share this state and its changes across the app.
Implementing Global State Management with useContext
The useContext hook is a powerful addition introduced in React 16.8. It allows you to share context (or some value) with all the child elements within a context provider. This is particularly useful when you want to access data or state in child components without manually passing props down to each nested component. In this article, you’ll learn about useContext in depth.