it all depends of how complex does your state management need to be. if it's something simple like sharing one state variable across multiple pages just use context. if instead you're building a complex dashboard that has a lot of data coming in and out I'd suggest taking a moment to understand how Redux/Zustand/and co. work and use one of then since they give you some really nice features right out of the box. something that would probably take you a long time to implement on your own with context