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Create a context object and a provider

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Create a context object and a provider

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- [Instructor] Let's begin with the context API. First, we want to create a new context object. So we do that with this method, which is createContext. And so, every new context object comes with one component provider that we use to share global states across the application. So let's say one quick example, createContext that we're going to use to create a new context objects. And in this example, we want to share common settings about this style in order to change the appearance across the entire application. And so, every context object comes with one component, the provider, that will allow to share global states across the application. And what we're going to do with this component provider is to wrap the top level component, so any components, descending components of this component provider will have access to the global state. And so, this component provider accepts one single prop value that we're going to use to…

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