A single source of truth

In the decentralized world, centralization can get a "bad rap". Truth is found everywhere, but finding it is hard work. Imagine having to read 10,000 different books to understand just one thing that each of them spoke about, when you could read one book on a particular subject instead. See what I mean?

The centralization of information is handy. It makes things easier. Decentralizing the information and spreading it out is not too desired. We have mega platforms as central hubs and markets for people to meet and connect online because it's convenient. Imagine having 10,000 platforms for each individual thing we would want to do. Centralization helps make things simpler and more convenient. Decentralization isn't the answer to everything in life.

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Having one source of truth is helpful. Sure, relying on that one source can mean you don't get everything, or it may even be falsity instead of truth. But, in many ways, it's best. This brings me to React development.

I'm tired of not having one source of truth for my application. It's so annoying to have to pass state and props down to child components. The more child components you have, the more you have to pass things around. This is what is looks like (sort of lol):

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That's why after understanding how state and props work well in React, I'm going to be switching my site development to a single source of truth. The solution is to use Redux. This establishes a single source of truth for managing the data in an application using what's called a store.

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So prior to Redux, you have to hop around and talk from one component to the other. However, with Redux, a component speaks to the store and then the store can then relay you to one or many other components directly, without passing through any middlemen.

That's the advantage of a single source of truth through Redux. The store is the single source, and everyone else goes there to get the truth, i.e. the data. Instead of trying to communicate with someone 10 or 100 positions down the line, the store cuts it down to 2 hops.

I'm working on refactoring my code to use Redux now. It will take some messing around, but will be worth it. I need to do it sooner, rather than later, as it just becomes more of a mess and more trouble to refactor the more the app grows.

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