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description: Managing context, state and hooks
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# State Management

## Context API

Context provides a way to pass data through the component tree without having to pass props down manually at every level.

We are using context for login methods - **`Auth0, JWT, Firebase, AWS.`**

## Redux

React Redux is the official React binding for Redux. It lets your React components read data from a Redux store, and dispatch actions to the store to update data.

Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript apps.

It helps you write applications that behave consistently, run in different environments (client, server, and native), and are easy to test.

On top of that, it provides a great developer experience.

## State

With Redux, our application state is always kept in plain JavaScript objects and arrays which means you may not put other things into the Redux state - no class instances, built-in JS types like Map / Set Promise / Date, functions, or anything else that is not plain JS data

The root Redux state value is almost always a plain JS object, with other data nested inside of it.

Based on this information, we should now be able to describe the kinds of values we need to have inside our Redux state:

```javascript
export const initialState = {
    isOpen: 'dashboard', //for active default menu
    navType: config.theme,
    locale: config.i18n,
    rtlLayout: false, // rtlLayout: config.rtlLayout,
    opened: true
};
```

