State Management

Learn how to define state variables, manage their scope, and practice global state management using composables and Pinia.

A state can be thought of as any data structure stored in memory that holds information for a component or the entire application at a given time.

In the last lesson on rendering mechanism, one can infer that state management plays a key role in how Vue renders the templates on the DOM.

In this lesson, we will discuss how to define state variables and manage state variable scope.

Define state in a Vue component

Can a component state be defined using regular JavaScript variables, as shown below?

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