use-context-selector VS zustand

Use jotai, or as someone else mentioned, zustand. React Context out of the box requires a very deliberate mental model due to a lack of tooling around selecting slices of state. This is why packages like react-context-selector exist: https://github.com/dai-shi/use-context-selector

Unless I've missed it, context doesn't have selector IIRC. You'd have to use a third party solution useContextSelector

How does this differ from https://github.com/dai-shi/use-context-selector?

you can always split out context state or use a library to help with rerender issues like https://github.com/dai-shi/use-context-selector, or just switch to jotai or something else if you want something more ergonomic or better design patterns.

If you don't want to swap out useContext, you could always use useContextSelector, which helps you limit what props in the context should rerender the component.

I wouldn't call this easy

It wouldn't be clear to anyone learning Context API either. At least, not using official docs. Because Context API is not supposed for state management, and if you for some unknown reasons try to roll your own state management on top of it, you have to use tricky libraries to work around the issues resulting from such abuse.

Any time anything in the context changes, any component that is consuming it will re-render. If you use it for frequently changed values, this library is needed to reduce unnecessary re-renders.

Use of this implementation of useContextSelector

Another technology I use regularly is Redux. But this time I wanted to manage the global state in a simpler and clearer way just using React hooks. I decided to go with a simple useReducer combined with theuseContextSelector hook which will avoid the whole application’s re-render caused by the native useContext hook.

State Management: Zustand

For our case, points 1 and 2 can help us provide a better way of handling updates in our rapidly updating application. I have used zustand for the application.

Daishi Kato, creator of Zustand and Jotai, says there are a few things we need to support RSC serialization:

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Link: https://zustand-demo.pmnd.rs/

For more code examples visit the documentation here

Have you ever wanted to learn state-management but it felt so overwhelming to get started with Redux? Or maybe you're already using Redux but don't want to take the burden anymore? If so, you might want to take a shot at Zustand! Its an amazing state management library that's easy to get started and maintain in a long run. In this post, we'll dive into creating & sharing stores with this tiny Redux alternative.

You add the current user state to a React Context or state management library, read from it on the top bar, and write to it after a user signs in. Done. No big deal, right?

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