From React Context to Zustand: How I Optimized My Windows CLI App
Building windows-cli.arnost.org – an interactive learning platform for Windows Command Line – forced me to confront a classic React ecosystem problem early: How do you manage state efficiently when every keystroke triggers an update? The Context Problem in Practice The first version of the app relied heavily on React Context. The central TerminalProvider managed: Current input line and command history Current working directory User progress data Notifications and error messages With over 450 lines of code, this quickly became a monolithic structure that was hard to maintain. But the bigger issue was performance. ...