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You saw in the last three exercises how Contexts can share data in an area of a React application. Now we’re going to show the common coding patterns many React developers use with Contexts and their .Provider components.

To start, it’s common for React applications to create a “wrapper” component around a .Provider component. The wrapper component can provide a value of its choosing, often one of its props or a string literal, to the .Provider component.

For example, here’s a ThemedMessage component that returns the ThemeContext.Provider component wrapped around any children components it receives. ThemedMessage also assigns a value using a theme prop:

const ThemeContext = React.createContext(); const ThemedMessage = ({ children, theme }) => { return ( <ThemeContext.Provider value={theme}> This content is in {theme} mode! {children} </ThemeContext.Provider> ); };

Wrapper components like ThemedMessage can then be used in place of a .Provider component to wrap children:

// Renders: // This content is in dark mode! Hooray! const MyComponent = () => { return ( <ThemedMessage theme="dark"> Hooray! </ThemedMessage> ) };

In this exercise, you’ll prepare the application for more changes later on by setting up a dedicated wrapper component for the ThemeContext Context. We’ll refactor ThemeContext so that later it can provide more than just the theme string to its consumers.

Instructions

1.

In the workspace’s ThemeContext.js file, create and export a new component named ThemeArea. It should take in two props: children and initialTheme.

2.

For the ThemeArea component’s returned value, return the children prop wrapped in a ThemeContext.Provider component. Use the initialTheme prop as the value for the ThemeContext.Provider.

3.

Now that the ThemeArea component acts as a wrapper around MyContext.Provider, replace any calls to MyContext.Provider in ContactsApp.js with ThemeArea. Make sure to use the initialTheme prop rather than the value prop of the .Provider. This shouldn’t change the behavior of your application at all – it’s only setting it up to be made more dynamic in the next exercise!

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