Replacing redux with react hooks and context (part 1)

Richard Oliver Bray
Octopus Labs London
8 min readFeb 9, 2019

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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…

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Richard Oliver Bray
Octopus Labs London

Co-founder of orva.studio. Building digital products and teaching others to do the same. Saved by grace.