gelato-ui VS zustand

My goal was to try a few new libraries and get experience under my belt (cause isn’t that what dev blogs are for?). I’d swap out Gatsby for **Astro,** and Styled Components + Styled System for **Vanilla Extract**. I was interested in trying Astro as it just hit 1.0, and I’ve been experimenting for a while with Vanilla Extract as a way to write Typescript powered styles and export to CSS.

You can find the design system I was experimenting with on Github, I called it Gelato UI in honor of the Vanilla Extract it takes to make it.

State Management: Zustand

For our case, points 1 and 2 can help us provide a better way of handling updates in our rapidly updating application. I have used zustand for the application.

Daishi Kato, creator of Zustand and Jotai, says there are a few things we need to support RSC serialization:

Zustand

Link: https://zustand-demo.pmnd.rs/

For more code examples visit the documentation here

Have you ever wanted to learn state-management but it felt so overwhelming to get started with Redux? Or maybe you're already using Redux but don't want to take the burden anymore? If so, you might want to take a shot at Zustand! Its an amazing state management library that's easy to get started and maintain in a long run. In this post, we'll dive into creating & sharing stores with this tiny Redux alternative.

You add the current user state to a React Context or state management library, read from it on the top bar, and write to it after a user signs in. Done. No big deal, right?

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