Managing state for UI components in React until now has required a dependency on libraries like Redux. However, simple UI level state management and other amazing developer features are now available with the release of version 16.8.

Understand the basics of using state, side-effects, Context API using React's four basic Hooks (useState, useEffect, useRef and useContext) as well, go deeper as we build a basic application with useReducer.

1 An hour or more talk on Basic State Management and news on React Hooks including reducers to help make state management more approachable in React JS.