Phase 9 · State Management
TopicsContext API
Part of the Frontend Developer Roadmap.
Summary
React's built-in mechanism for sharing state across the component tree — a good fit for low-frequency updates (theme, auth) without adding a library.
How to Learn This
- 1Build a global auth context that stores the current user and a logout function.
- 2Notice performance issues when a context value changes very frequently.
- 3Learn to split contexts by concern rather than one giant global context.
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