Prop Drilling

  • This lesson introduces prop drilling in React and explains its impact on component structure and maintainability.

  • Prop Drilling

    What is Prop Drilling?

    Prop drilling means passing data through many layers of components even when intermediate components don’t need it.

    Example:

App → Layout → Sidebar → Profile
  • Problems with Prop Drilling

     ❌ Hard to maintain
    ❌ Cluttered code
    ❌ Difficult debugging
    ❌ Poor scalability

    Prop drilling becomes painful in large apps.