Glossary term
What is State?
In Apex Flow Academy, "State" means: Everything about your app that can change, kept together in one place. It is taught in JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive and React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps. Related terms include Event and listener, Render, Selector and JSON. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is State?
Everything about your app that can change, kept together in one place. (From JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does State mean in JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive?
Everything about your app that can change, kept together in one place.
What does State mean in React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps?
A value a component remembers between renders. When it changes, React renders the component again.
Where is State taught?
State is defined in JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive and React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps.
JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come AliveReact and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps
Which lessons cover State?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive, lesson 5.4: Keep the page in step with one state object
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps, lesson 2.2: State: a component's memory
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps, lesson 2.3: Forms: controlled inputs and derived values
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps, lesson 2.4: Updating arrays and objects without changing them
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps, lesson 3.1: Lifting state up
Which terms are related to State?
Next to State in the course glossaries: Event and listener, Render, Selector, JSON, DOM, localStorage, Spread, API, Hook and Props.
Event and listenerRenderSelectorJSONDOMlocalStorageSpreadAPIHookProps
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn State?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner and intermediate level:
- JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive: No prior programming and no CSS knowledge are needed; the style sheet you need is given to you.
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps: Basic JavaScript: you can write a function, use variables with const and let, work with arrays and objects, and have seen map and filter. Modules 1 and 2 explain destructuring and spread the first time they appear.