effector-react VS nanoid

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/

Last thing left is to use our new upload function in our server action. Since I like to upload images in single format and have some more control over them, I will additionally use sharp library. For file name, I'll generate some random string using nanoid:

Our API is in node. And God, how I suffered to import nanoid in an esmodule project. I had to vendor it, since using a previous version was not ideal. With bun, we can no longer worry about that. Just import what you need and done.

No thread about UUID is complete without a plug for NanoID! https://github.com/ai/nanoid/blob/main/README.md

Generate a unique file name using the nanoid library.

The syntax should read similar to SQL itself. We’re using a Python port of nanoid to generate our IDs. There’s only one thing missing… how do we actually create the table?

I usually go for Nano Id for new projects https://github.com/ai/nanoid

Nano ID

In another comment I mentioned I use nanoid in my projects now. It has a default space of 64^21 and has an a page where you can play with key lengths and alphabet sizes and see the probability of collisions :

https://zelark.github.io/nano-id-cc/

At the default 64 character alphabet with a 21 character key length it would take ~41 million years in order to have a 1% probability of at least one collision if you generated 1000 ids per second.

Using randomly generated IDs like Nano ID could be a good alternative, however, as a developer, we must understand what Nano ID really does in our application. Defining the number of characters in the generated IDs is also important, to help with that Nano ID has a Collision Calculator to give us how many years in order to have a 1% probability of collision.