effector-react VS Avalonia

In its docs, Astro recommends nanostores, but I’ve used effector in the past. And LOVED IT. So I’ve used it for this project as well.

I've been using effector, together with the apollo-client for the last few years and, while it works, it's completely detached from the actual screens. In other words, you need to fetch everything (at startup) you might use at some point and it stays in the memory for the entire duration of the session. Error handling is also tricky as you need to explicitly subscribe to the specific error stores in order to render them. And, if something goes wrong, it's tricky to tell what data is actually used in the current screen, so it's almost impossible to do the Retry efficiently. OTOH the screens are nice and simple - no spinners, the data is just there, thus the app feels (and is) fast.

Actually, Svelte uses Effector for state management under the hood. You can read more about it here: https://effector.dev/. It also has bindings for other frameworks including React, Vue and Solid. Effector is a little not beginner-friendly, but once you truly understand it, Effector becomes a very powerful.

A state-management library.

Effector it is the another way to create state and business logic for your frontend application.

https://effector.dev/ here you go

Then I found Effector which seems to have the same features, and SolidJs support.

Where’s effector?

https://ngneat.github.io/elf/ https://effector.dev/

You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.

[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

Production user here. There's no money gotchas. They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].

The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.

See my comment [2]

[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128

Yes, but the portable GUI frameworks by Microsoft themselves are generally not very good, and they tend to be abandoned after a couple of years.

Avalonia is developed outside of the Microsoft corporate madness and seems to be slowly becoming the defacto cross-platform framework because it is expected to last a bit longer than a manager's attention span: https://avaloniaui.net/

Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device."

(From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )

It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.

Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.

[0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)

For desktop, Avalonia, hands down.

https://avaloniaui.net/

Open source, powered by Skia, backed by JetBrains, and quite battle-tested at this point for small to medium-sized apps. In theory perfectly capable for enterprise as well, since it's basically a spiritual successor to WPF, which has been an industry standard for about 15 years.

They're diving into mobile and WASM well, but that's more of a recent effort and I haven't tested that yet.