The Prop Drilling Problem Every React Developer Hits Welcome back to Let’s Master React Hooks Together — the series where we learn React Hooks the practical way, like real-world developers actually use them. In the previous episodes, we explored hooks like useState , useEffect and useNavigate . But now we’re entering a stage where React apps start becoming real applications — with shared state, nested components, themes, authentication, and global UI behavior. And that’s exactly where developers hit one frustrating problem: prop drilling. You create a piece of state in a parent component, but suddenly you’re passing it through 4 or 5 layers of components just so one deeply nested child can use it. Your component tree starts looking like this: App → Layout → Header → Navbar → Button Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode And somewhere deep inside that tree, a button just needs the current theme or logged-in user. The result?…