Episode 4 - State Management in React with Paige Niedringhaus

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In this episode the amazing Paige Niedringhaus shares with us her thoughts on state management on web applications and how that translates into the ReactJS world.
We talk about best and worst practices when it comes to managing the state of your React apps and when should you actually reach for a 3rd party library to do so.
Episode links:
Get a hold on Paige:
- Paige's Twitter: @pniedri
- Blog: https://www.paigeniedringhaus.com
- Her React Course: https://www.newline.co/courses/newline-guide-to-modernizing-an-enterprise-react-app
Her recommendations:
- Redux Toolkit: https://redux-toolkit.js.org/
- Zustand: https://zustand-demo.pmnd.rs/
- Recoil: https://recoiljs.org/
- Jotai: https://jotai.org/
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Chapters

1. Episode 4 - State Management in React with Paige Niedringhaus (00:00:00)

2. What is the state of a web app? (00:01:45)

3. What is the state of a React app? (00:03:49)

4. Some of the worst state management practices around (00:05:16)

5. On prop-drilling (00:07:11)

6. When is it OK to use a 3rd party library then? (00:08:21)

7. On persisting the state "somewhere" (00:10:59)

8. Her go-to state management library (00:13:40)

9. Is Redux still relevant these days? (00:16:17)

10. The best advice she ever got (00:19:07)

11. Her most exciting project so far (00:21:13)

12. What she wishes she knew before starting coding (00:23:20)

13. Where can people find her? (00:24:28)