Strategies for mitigating prop drilling with React and TypeScript
Blog post from LogRocket
Prop drilling in React, particularly when using TypeScript, involves passing props through a hierarchy of components, leading to repetitive and cumbersome code. The article explores several strategies to mitigate prop drilling, including reducing the number of components by consolidating them, using React's children prop to colocate state and components, and combining related props into a single object. It also discusses using the Context API for dependency injection, which allows components to consume data without passing props through every level, and the "pick props" technique that leverages TypeScript to streamline prop management. Each approach has its pros and cons, such as potential loss of component reusability or increased complexity, but collectively they offer ways to simplify code and reduce boilerplate associated with prop drilling.