Redux vs Context vs Server-State Libraries
Redux earns its overhead when many distant components write shared client state, or you need middleware, devtools history, or a serializable event log; React Context suffices for low-frequency values like theme or auth, and TanStack Query or RTK Query beat manual Redux for anything fetched from a server. Most apps that adopted Redux for server data alone no longer need it.
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Redux earns its overhead when many distant components write shared client state, or you need middleware, devtools history, or a serializable event log; React Context suffices for low-frequency values like theme or auth, and TanStack Query or RTK Query beat manual Redux for anything fetched from a server. Most apps that adopted Redux for server data alone no longer need it.
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