direct-vuex VS diffx

Pinia is a relatively new state management tool for the Vue ecosystem. It is the new preferred state management tool recommended by the Vue core team replacing Vuex. Compared to Vuex, Pinia is type-safe by default (direct-vuex was needed to make Vuex type-safe), extremely lightweight, and modular by design (meaning you can create multiple stores instead of multiple modules inside one store, which optimises performance). Similar to Vuex, Pinia has state, computed properties (getters) and methods (mutations and actions). Read more about Pinia and its usage to understand the similarities and differences between Pinia and Vuex.

I then found several small community projects (1 2 3) which look like they perform that boilerplate for you and... not much else. They also require their own additional npm import, which isn't ideal.

I like Vuex because of its strictness and inspection tool. But I have used diffx successfully and it's built on top of @vue/reactive and works with any firework and vanilla. Souch simpler to work with than Vuex. And has its own inspector plugin. https://github.com/jbjorge/diffx

Great, congrats!! Working with Vue is awesome. Faster and lighter than React. I can recommend this lightweight state library instead of Vuex if you want less code bureaucracy: https://github.com/jbjorge/diffx. New project but I know the guy who made it and he's good and responsive. I have tested it and it's really easy going. Build on top of @vue/reactive but has flavors for many frameworks and vanilla js.