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Kevin Sullivan
Kevin Sullivan

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Untangle react contexts that depend on each other?

Recently on Twitter a question was asked, roughly, how to untangle 2 react contexts that use state/callbacks provided by each other.

Several answers were suggested, ranging from combining them into a single context, to using callbacks from one context to sync state with another.

While I have no doubt that any of the provided solutions could be made to work, I couldn't help but think about another solution that I think is more in the react style of composition.

So, without further ado, my solution:

Much like the unix philosophy of "Do 1 thing, and do it well", each context is reduced to a single responsibility. The two original contexts can now be used independently, with the third context doing only the composition.

Feel free to provide feedback. Good? Bad? Pro's / Con's?

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