Sharing State with useState
Explore how to share reactive state throughout a Nuxt 3 application with the useState composable. Understand how to define shared state with unique keys, access and update it in multiple components, and use this method as a clearer alternative to passing props, improving state management across your app.
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Breaking up our application into multiple pages and components can often present challenges. One of those is how we share state or data between them. We may fetch a user in one component and also need to access the data in others.
Current solutions
Some solutions to this include a regular JavaScript file, a composable file, and props. Regular JavaScript files can be used, and we export any data or functions we need in other parts of our project. Composable files also work in a similar way, creating a standalone file we can import where we need to access it.
A traditional solution with Nuxt or Vue.js is to use props. Data can be passed down from a parent to a child component. If we organize ...