Why Do State Management?
Learn about state management.
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What is a state?
Throughout the course, we’ve been using the useState hook. We know that in React Native, state is a piece of data that we need to track that indicates the condition of a particular component within the app. If we recall our real world example earlier in the course, we talked about how a light switch has two states—on and off.
In React Native, a piece of information can change as a result of changing the UI. For example, this piece of information could be whether the user is logged in or not or a list of the posts the current user has created.