state-lifting

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides expert guidance on React state placement and sharing strategies, solving the common challenges of Prop Drilling, unnecessary re-renders, and complex component architectures. It helps you design clear, performant, and maintainable React applications.

Core Features & Use Cases

• State Placement Guide: Offers a decision-making flowchart to determine the optimal location for state (local, lifted, global) based on usage patterns.
• Colocation Principles: Emphasizes placing state as close as possible to where it's used, reducing cognitive load and improving maintainability.
• Prop Drilling Solutions: Explores various patterns like Composition, Render Props, Context API, and Compound Components to effectively manage state across deep component hierarchies.
• Context API Patterns: Provides best practices for using React Context, including separating state and dispatch, memoization, and performance considerations.
• Use Case: When developing a complex form with multiple nested components, use this skill to analyze your state structure. It will guide you on whether to lift the form state to a common parent, use React Context for global form data, or apply composition patterns to avoid Prop Drilling, resulting in cleaner and more efficient code.

Quick Start

Use the state-lifting skill to analyze the state structure of a React component file 'src/components/MyForm.tsx'. Identify potential Prop Drilling issues. Suggest a suitable state placement strategy to optimize performance and maintainability.