What is state?
It is the current state of your program. That is, state is the data which is manipulated and reflected by running a program.
What is State-Management?
State-Management is the implementation of a Design Pattern, with the help of this design pattern we can synchronize the state of the application throughout all components of the application.
Advantages of State-Management:
- State-Management helps to centralize and make the maintenance of code very easy, also it improves the quality of code, by reducing the code size and making it more readable as well.
- The State of the Whole Application is present at a single place, so we do not need to access the single state or data from different places.
- Debugging becomes easy since the state-management stores all the data of users and site as object variables, that’s why it is very helpful when debugging in the middle of developing.
- It reduces the HTTP requests sent to the back-end for fetching and retrieval of the data.
Disadvantages of State-Management:
- The approach for managing the state is quite complicated and not easy. Although it is incredibly helpful for development, controlling it might be challenging. Additionally, it occasionally flags legitimate actions as fraudulent.
- If you are developing a simple blog and Single Page Application that don’t need much actions, then State Management will not be suitable.
When to implement the State-Management?
- State management must be implemented if the application has many components and often sends requests to the back end for data retrieval. Since doing so will greatly improve the user experience and performance of the program.
- If redundant data is used throughout the whole application.
Conclusion:
Discussion about the definition of state and state management is done in this article. Additionally, the benefits and drawbacks of state management as well as its implementation.