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Client State vs Server State
Part of the Full Stack Developer Roadmap
In short
Distinguishing state your frontend owns entirely (a modal being open, a form's current input) from state that actually lives on your server/database and is just cached locally — treating them the same way is a common source of full-stack bugs.
How to learn this
- 1Audit a project's state and label each piece as client state or server state.
- 2Move server state out of a general-purpose store like Redux/Context into React Query if it's mixed in today.
- 3Learn why treating all state the same way tends to cause avoidable complexity.
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