During the process of developing React applications, I’ve had times when I had to decide if I should use Redux or the fairly new hook (available from React’s version 16.3) called ContextAPI for…

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Redux is a JavaScript library used to manage the state of applications (mainly popular with React) Context API provides a way to expose a shared entity called “state” that can be used by the components without having to explicitly pass a prop through every level of the tree. Prop Drilling is the process by which data from one part of the React tree to another by going through other parts.

Redux/Context API for State Management in React.

Context API — Global state management for React applications