What is Context API in React and how to use it?

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N.B. This article requires you to have little knowledge of prop drilling and the issue associated with them.

Context API acts as a container for the global state variables which is helpful when you want to avoid prop drilling and pass data from one component to another without the need for passing props.

Steps to use Context API

Step 1: Create Context

Step 2: Use Context

And that's it. You have successfully implemented Context API.

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