Summary

In this chapter, we focused on state management using both React built-in APIs (the Context APIs and Hooks) and external libraries (Redux). There are many other tools and libraries for managing an application's global state (MobX, Recoil, XState, Unistore, to name just a few). You can use all of them inside your Next.js application by initializing them for both client-side and server-side usage, just like we did with Redux.

Also, you can use Apollo GraphQL and its in-memory cache for managing your application state, gaining access to a formal query language for mutating and querying your global data.

We can now create more complex and interactive web applications, managing different kinds of state with any library we want.

But once you have your data well organized and ready to use, you need to display it and render your application UI depending on your application state. In the next chapter, you will see how to style your web app by configuring and using different...