Context

Definitions

1. A mechanism for passing request-scoped values, cancellation signals, and deadlines across API boundaries and goroutines. In Go, context.Context is threaded through call chains. In React, Context API provides a way to share state without prop drilling.

   In plain English: Background information passed along with a request or through a component tree so that different parts of the code know what is going on.

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