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React.js with TypeScript: Sharing Data Across Components using React.Context

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In this article, we will see the step-by-step implementation of using " React.Context" to share data across components. We will use TypeScript as a programming language to implement the code for this article.    Why TypeScript? TypeScript is an open-source language that increases JavaScript application productivity by providing a type system. TypeScript is a typed JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. TypeScript delivers a unique and easy approach to building front-end applications. React Context      React.js is a JavaScript Library for building interactive UI. This library is used to build the composable UI. In such cases, the UI may contain multiple components and these components may have a Parent-Child relationship across them. With the UI having such type of relationship, we may have the case of sharing data across the components. The Context provides a way to pass data through the components tree without having to pass props down manually at every level. We us