Mark Erikson is a software engineer living in southwest Ohio, USA. Mark is a Redux maintainer, creator of Redux Toolkit, and general keeper of the Redux docs. He tweets at @acemarke, and blogs at https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com. He spends much of his time answering questions about React and Redux anywhere there’s a comment box on the internet, and usually hangs out in the Reactiflux chat channels.
Mark is also disturbed at the number of third-person references he has written in this bio.
I am a huge proponent of a couple of specific ideas. One is that you should always try to understand what problems a specific tool is trying to solve… And another is that you need to understand exactly what problems you are trying to solve in your own application right now, and pick the tools that solve your problem best.
Redux maintainer Mark Erikson joins Jerod and Amal for an in-depth conversation around the React community’s fav state management solution. We learn how Mark came to be maintainer of Redux, why and how Redux Toolkit came about, when to go with Redux vs other options, and much more.
ALSO: prop drilling, the grep factor, & lasagna mode (oh my)
