contextType
Explore how to use contextType in React class components to access a single Context more efficiently. Understand the syntax differences, benefits, and limitations of using contextType instead of Consumer components, improving state management with the React Context API.
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Why use contextType?
While using class components, we can employ a trick that allows us to avoid building another Consumer component bloating our component tree further.
To do this, we can use contextType. It can be assigned to a class component in the form of a static property. The Context value can then be accessed within the component via this.context. The value of the contextType ...