Episode 12 - Redux Toolkit and State Management in React with Mark Erikson

20minJS

Mark Erikson joins me to talk about state management in React. More especifically covering why Redux toolkit is such a great alternative to other libraries and the type of problems it solves.
We also get some insight into the origin of the current bad rep of Redux.
Get in touch with Mark:

• Twitter: @acemarke
• Github
• Reddit

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Chapters

1. Episode 12 - Redux Toolkit and State Management in React with Mark Erikson (00:00:00)

2. Meet Mark (00:01:07)

3. What is state? (00:02:18)

4. Can we work with useState and context alone? (00:05:41)

5. Is it good that we have so many state management options? (00:10:04)

6. His ideal state management solution (00:11:04)

7. What's the reason for all the hate towards Redux? (00:17:05)

8. What about Atom-based state management? (00:29:15)

9. Why would someone go with Redux Tookit for a new project? (00:31:58)

10. The most exciting project he worked on (00:38:30)

11. One thing he regrets not knowing before starting to code (00:39:28)

12. Where can people find him? (00:41:12)