2 posts tagged with “useReducer”

Managing state at different levels of complexity is hard. Different tools make different trade-offs between readability, complexity and speed of development. The worst part is that as apps get more complex, it’s easy to regret choices that were made early on.

This series of articles should help you make the right choice off the bat. The plan is to cover a bunch of state use cases, starting with the simple and graduating to more complexity as we go. We’ll see how easy they are to write, and also how they survive changing requirements.

Today, we’re starting with modals.

My code contains Horcruxes. I’m not proud to admit it, since to make a Horcrux you need to commit a murder. The murders seemed intuitive at the time, and were usually for expedience. But nonetheless, I am a murderer.

Let’s talk about how I got here.