cerebral VS react-redux

Today's mainly going to be focused on the frontend, because I want to introduce this state management system that I've been really digging lately. It's called Overmind, the same team that made Cerebral. Overmind is somewhat similar to Cerebral, but it supports TypeScript and it's... well, it's not abandoned.

react-redux : Integration with React

You should think about using some client state management libraries like Redux. Redux gives you the possibility to encapsulate states and manipulate it through functions. https://react-redux.js.org/

`useSyncExternalStore` was shipped live in React 18.0 and is fully ready for production use.

Source: I'm the primary Redux maintainer, and worked with Andrew Clark of the React team to nail down the semantics and behavior needed by `useSyncExternalStore` in practice. They had the idea, but discussed a lot of the necessary use cases with us and other lib maintainers, and a lot of its internal implementation is directly related to how React-Redux's `useSelector` hook was implemented already.

I built the first working code that used it by prototyping React-Redux v8's switch from our own internal subscription handling to `useSyncExternalStore` instead and gave Andrew feedback:

- https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/1808

State Management with Redux

Redux is a popular state management tool that can be used in conjunction with React to manage the state of an application. It works by implementing a unidirectional data flow, in which actions are dispatched to a central store, which then updates the state of the application and sends the updated state back to the components that need it.

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Sorry, that is correct. I was combining Redux toolkit with React Redux In my head.

if you have a more complex component hierarchy, and the component who receives the DB response is not on the top, you might consider introducing a State management tool, such as Redux: https://redux.js.org / https://react-redux.js.org

FWIW I was actually the primary alpha tester for useSyncExternalStore - I prototyped using uSES in React-Redux v8, and worked with Andrew Clark to nail down what the final API and behavior should be.

Additionally, the idea that the props.todoAdded() version from connect automatically dispatched when called was always a source of confusion and led to lots of questions. So, Dan Abramov specifically suggested that we drop the idea of auto-binding as we were designing the hooks API to make it more clear what's actually happening, and we did.