Shared reactive data without context or effects

Frontend First

Sam and Ryan talk about whether stores in module scope are a better alternative to Context for sharing global state in React apps.

Topics include:

• 0:00 – Intro
• 3:21 – Using Zustand to refactor a useAuth hook
• 34:08 – Module scope vs. context for shared state
• 58:52 – 7 GUI tasks

Links:

• Zustand
• Sebastian’s tweet on default context values
• Sam’s Auth Provider using Zustand, SWR and Suspense
• 7 GUIs