Strategies for communicating between interactive components using Islands Architecture, with examples using Astro and React.

Anja Petry

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Islands Architecture allows for rendering interactive components while keeping the rest of the website as static HTML. The challenge in Islands Architecture is sharing state between interactive components. Options include lifting state up, using custom event handlers, or using a shared store.

Sharing State with Islands Architecture

<p>After all, we can achieve the same behavior using Redux or any other state manager, or even if we wrap a server component with client components, it will not make them client-side, they will be executed only on the server if there is no interaction with the client.</p>
