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.

A look at simplifying local state in React using Hooks and Context API making state management overall more approachable for new to intermediate React developers.