Managing Data in React without Redux

The React ecosystem has provided us with a large amount of the cutting edge technologies to work with. React has also enabled front-end developers to become better JavaScript developers, but getting data into your React app is not as clear.

React is replacing a lot of front-end solutions for constructing UI’s, which leaves room to discovers better ways to consumable JSON data from APIs. Thanks to the Sanctioned React CLI, getting a React project up and running is easier than ever. The question is once I get a running app, how can do I manage data and content for my project?

Within the past year I have discovered different ways to solve the same problem — managing the increasingly complex data requirements of modern web/mobile apps. In this talk I will go through my talk through how to manage data in a React client application, using 5 of different techniques including starting with Promises and eventually getting to how I now got to GraphQL.