Since the introduction of React Hooks on React 16.8 version the way we build features based on state management, prop drilling, event handling and a lot more has been changed. But doesn’t matter that all this new approaches came in a certain way to “replace” class based state management, a lot of open source, startup and business projects are still using the whole class based React environment and a lot of developers should actually maintain all this projects.
We could spend the whole day arguing why we should start using react hooks in every project we build but that’s a discussion for other day, it’s quite important to consider that we still need to know how the entire library works and yes that includes the classic this.state and this.setState formula for built-in state management.

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