The Path to Hell: React’s Context API

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This is the reason why I often tend to use Redux, even tho it's overkill. The redux devtools are an amazing tool to see whats going on and who changed what.

But maybe someone give me a better solution than using Redux? I mean, if you provide data and an api to modify it, you ultimately end up in this scenario where you ask yourself "Why has it been changed? And where?"? I don't see how you could prevent that.

Mithril.js has global redraws by default. This turns out to solve practically all React's "local redraws only" problems & solutions, and requires less written code in the process.

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