I'm working on a React + Redux project with a couple of other developers and we can't agree on what the best practice is regarding where to pass in the state and the actions.
My approach is to have a 'container' or 'provider' component, which is the parent component, all required states and actions are mapped to state and passed down into child components, creating a single source of truth. However the down side to that is, you have to remember to pass actions and values down through each child component, which can be tricky to follow.
Another developers approach is to use the mapStateToProps on each component where it is needed, at any point in the stack. So if a child component three or four levels down requires a certain state, he would use mapStateToProps on that component. He would also import action creators directly using the import keyword, instead of calling them as props. I don't like this approach because you're potentially injecting states multiple times and you can't switch out your state or actions quickly in one place.
I can see both approaches have their merits and fallbacks, so I just wondered if there was a definite best practice as to where and when to inject state/actions into a stack of React components.