Summary

In this chapter, we became familiar with the concept of state. By now, you should understand the importance of state as the heart of React applications and know how you can manage it natively with the help of useState and useReducer.

You learned that sometimes, you need to share your state with multiple components and that you can do it with Context or by leveraging a third-party state management library. Each of these solutions has its pros and cons, and at the end of the day, it will be a question of developer preference.

In Chapter 2, Server State versus Client State, you will understand more about global state, and you find out that often, our global state is a combination of both server and client state. You will learn what these terms mean, how to identify these states, and what the common challenges associated with them are.