I think the way we're framing this is a conceptual mismatch. It looks like the Provider pattern is a React Design Pattern - I found this Medium article that breaks it down a bit: React Design Patterns: Provider Pattern.

The phrasing here - saying that the @realm/react library offers custom React components called Providers - implies that the "Providers" is a @realm/react concept, and it's not.

We might rephrase this to talk about how @realm/react uses this common design pattern to simplify app development - i.e.

That's not the most readable sentence - it's kinda long and meandering - so maybe you could use a tool like Hemingway Editor to help you get it trimmed down more.

Going from the sentence above to this one seems like a surprising context switch that doesn't make sense to the user until the last sentence here. We were just talking about React Providers, and now we're talking about App Services. We could rephrase the above line and the content here to smooth this transition and make it more obvious how these two things are related:

The @realm/react library offers custom React components that eliminate the boilerplate needed to work with the SDK in a React app. These components leverage the Provider design pattern to manage user creation, user authentication, and data flow between components.

• RealmProvider: Work with the configured database.
• AppProvider: Connect to Atlas for user authentication, calling a Function, or using Device Sync.
• UserProvider: Work with the logged-in user object.

Instead of just saying that the provider "grants access," we can reframe it to focus on the types of tasks the user might need to do with that provider. This makes it easier for the user to figure out which provider they need to use for the task they're trying to do.

I think we could build this content out more, and then it might be easier to make more logical sense of how the elements fit together on the page and what the headers should be.

It would probably be good to show a hierarchy diagram for various tasks - i.e.

Use a Synced Database

• AppProvider
  • UserProvider
    • RealmProvider

Use a Non-Synced Database

• RealmProvider

Authenticate a User

• AppProvider
  • UserProvider

Call a Function

• AppProvider
  • UserProvider

Access MongoDB Atlas (this is the "Query MongoDB page" that uses the MongoClient API)

• AppProvider
  • UserProvider

When you see a bunch of the tasks listed out, it becomes more obvious how the providers fit together and which ones you need to use to perform common tasks. And then I think the requirement to nest components within the wrapper makes more sense. There are a lot of different ways you might choose to represent this information, visually and within the context of the page IA (and as it relates to the larger section IA).

Maybe this would be a good place for a procedure?

We should probably provide more information in the introduction to each of these pages about what tasks a user might want to do when they are using the Provider - i.e. in this case, accessing an App Services App. The act of accessing an App Services App isn't the developer's goal - it's an incidental implementation detail. It's something they have to do in order to accomplish a task they're trying to do. Documentation usually makes a lot more sense to users when we can frame it in terms of how the developer can use it to do the task they're trying to do instead of mentioning the implementation without that task-based framing.

It may be more clear if you can make the connection to React's context / provider or maybe use this as a reference on how to frame it. https://react.dev/reference/react/createContext#provider

"Wrap your components into a context provider to specify the value of this context for all components inside." is what React's docs say, adjusting it in this direction may be a good idea

I am also not sure what "interacting" with a provider means.

not sure what destructure means but what you're creating is a RealmContext which includes a Provider and hooks. So with multiple Realms, you will need multiple Realm Contexts and then use their associated providers and hooks depending on the one you need.

As with React docs, you can think of a Provider as a component that "specifies the value of the (Realm) context for all components inside it", so when you have multiple Realms, what you do is create multiple Realm contexts and then use providers to specify what parts of your applications should get what context (in some cases they could be the same).

And in the sense, the hooks are accessing the realm/app/user from the context, not the provider.

It's quite challenging / confusing to word this even for me now but hope this helps 😄

Redux framing for provider and hooks, may be a helpful reference with subtle wording things:
https://react-redux.js.org/api/provider
https://react-redux.js.org/api/hooks

I understand the reasoning for wording it this way to separate different types of hooks and their needed providers but this may make more sense as Realm Hooks, the provider is an implementation detail. https://react-redux.js.org/api/hooks (our case is more complex since we have multiple providers but may be helpful...)

The "only necessary when using Device Sync" part isn't accurate for this line and the next line.

The App Client is used for any operation that connects to Atlas. That includes:

• Authenticating a user
• Using mongoClient to query MongoDB Atlas collections
• Calling an Atlas Function
• Working with synced databases

And the last three all require access to the logged-in User object, because we perform those operations in the context of the logged-in user.

We might want to update this section to reflect the full range of operations you can perform with AppProvider and UserProvider - maybe as bullet lists under each?