react Context

Question 1

What is the purpose of React “context”?

Answer 1

we can use info between any component no matter the layer. (only childs can use it)

Question 2

What values can be stored in context?

Answer 2

Anything: strings, numbers, booleans, etc

Question 3

How do you create context and make it available to the components?

Answer 3

const newContext = createContext();

Question 4

How do you access the context values?

Answer 4

Export it.
const (context = useContext(newContext);

Question 5

When would you use context? (in addition to the best answer: “rarely”)

Answer 5

when you have information that accessed by multiple components that are scattered around.