# How and When to Use Context in React with Hooks

DevFeed: [How and When to Use Context in React with Hooks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-and-when-to-use-context-in-react-with-hooks-37603.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.taniarascia.com/react-context-api-hooks/>)

Author: hello@taniarascia.com

Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tania Rascia](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tania-rascia.md>)

Topics: [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [hooks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hooks.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>), [Redux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redux.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

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## AI overview

A tutorial on using React Context with modern functional components and hooks. It explains that Context can pass data across components and is useful for localized, reusable state, while Redux remains more suitable for large-scale global state management.

## Source excerpt

A while ago, I wrote an article about Using Context API in React. However, most of my examples on that page used Class components, , and...