Why context

This repository contains some case studies for why context (in React sense) is useful. React.createContext() can be achieved on Vue by provide() and inject() hooks, it can also emulated in old versions of Ember (2.x) via Component#parentView, but sadly not in Ember 3.x with GlimmerComponent.

I’ve created this repository to show why React.createContext() is not just a dumb dependecy injection mechanism and using providers through the tree is actually useful for lots of cases. (And also to show why Ember should re-introduce the options to use this pattern).

Good reasons to use context

1. Keyboard management
2. Theming
3. Dynamic router
4. Deeplinks
5. Contextual state
6. Emulating CSS’s cascade for alternative styling system