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Context providers

Context providers

Welcome to this session on Context Providers. Our goal today is to master global state management in a Next.js application using React's powerful Context API. We'll be building a very practical and common feature, a dark and light mode theme toggle. By the end of this session, you will have a clear understanding of how to create a custom Context Provider to manage your app's theme, apply dynamic styles with Tailwind CSS, and seamlessly integrate this global setting into your app's layout. You'll gain a solid foundation in how React Context and the Next.js app router work together, leaving you with a fully functional theme switcher and the confidence to manage global state in your own projects. Let's start where we left off inside our initial RootLayout component in layout.js. This is the foundational component for our entire application in Next.js. Let's create ThemeContext.js inside src slash context to manage and provide theme-related state across the Next.js application. Moving to…

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