React All-Day: Advanced React Context Management Hide this title

A returning champion to React Wednesdays, Michael Labriola (@mlabriola) dove right into how React contexts work, and how frameworks such as Redux have tackled the associated complexities, allowing you to realize the benefits with few of the drawbacks.

The advent of React contexts provided new opportunities to share data within areas of an application but it was not without challenges. Developers quickly discovered that contexts can have performance implications leaving many wondering if it was all worth the effort.