Replacing redux with react hooks and context (part 1)
If you’ve been in the React world for a decent amount of time you would have heard about Redux. Redux is cool, it’s a way of getting separate components to alter and pull data from the main application store, but it’s not easy to pick up, especially for beginners.
There are these things called reducers, actions, and action creators. There are methods like mapDispatchToProps and mapStateToProps as well as a bunch of files and folders that need to be created for conventional reasons. For just sharing and changing data it is a lot of work.
With the introduction of the Context API and hooks, we can sort of recreate Redux in our React app without actually installing redux and react-redux. I will attempt to show you how in this article.
What we’re building
We’re going to build a tiny app that lates you pick your favourite Rick and Morty episodes This isn’t a tutorial on CSS so we won’t focus much on styling. The full final project is here on Github or here in Codesandbox, feel free to reference it if you get lost.
Note: If you just want the steps and not the explanations, just…
