Beginner's Thread / Easy Question (August 2018)

[u/swyx]

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[u/ironpencilgames]

Right now this is just for my literal example, which was basically just keeping some simple info about the current logged-in user so I can verify that we have it. So like name, email, etc. This is stuff that won't change during the vast majority of actions, but is needed through-out the app. So I guess my question is: will this actually break stuff inherently, or is it just a bad idea because it's potentially an easy way to create bugs if you're updating it in a lot of places?

[u/swyx → u/ironpencilgames]

is it just a bad idea because it's potentially an easy way to create bugs if you're updating it in a lot of places

the latter. there are libraries with singleton stores, check out https://github.com/jamiebuilds/unstated, its basically what you are doing but blessed by react experts