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Why does local state for global concerns not scale?

Senior React
Quick Answer Local state for global concerns (user auth, theme, cart) lives in one component that must be a parent of all consumers รขโ‚ฌโ€ often creating deeply nested prop drilling or a mega Context. Multiple instances of the same state get out of sync. Global state (Context, Redux, Zustand) keeps one source of truth that all components read from.

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Local state becomes duplicated and inconsistent across the app, requiring stores or context for synchronization.
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