Yes, that's what I do. Managing the global state in the main component, setting up functions to change the state via the update helper [1] and pass these functi

Yes, that's what I do. Managing the global state in the main component, setting up functions to change the state via the update helper [1] and pass these functions down to the dumb components. [1]: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/update.html https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/update.html