hookstate VS redux

Hookstate

Avoid using complex state structures to make it easier to manage and debug. There are multiple libraries to help manage complex state management such as Redux, Hookstate, etc.

Link: https://hookstate.js.org/

As you stumble on this post and article, do check out one library not mentioned in this list: hookstate. I'm a big fan, the API is very simple and it offers lots of extendability options.

Why don't you try out hook state

Lo stack tecnologico è abbastanza standard per il 2022: il core è Next.js (quindi React, 18), di store managemente se ne occupa Hookstate e per un po' di collante in più c'è l'event emitter / pubsub Mitt.

I have been using Hookstate, curiously aanbidt never mentioned in lists like this.

I've never understood why Hookstate (https://hookstate.js.org/) doesn't get more love. It's super-simple (no boilerplate), modern (hook-based), performant (works great for all size apps) and even works outside of components beautifully. It's somewhat similar to context, but more robust and feature-rich (because it's a true state management solution, which context really isn't meant to be). It's basically the only way I've done state in React for a couple of years now and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

If your data requirements aren't particularly mutating / don't mutate regularly then the newer context api would be your friend it essentially variable that is scoped to your react tree which components can subscribe to changes of, but it is important to know that: unfortunately the current useContext hook (and by extension the rest of the context api) doesn't have any means of specifically "choosing" / "selecting" a part of that context state which is where it falls behind redux etc... - even though they technically operate very very similarly - both redux and context api make use of "subscriptions" to track state updates, just that the context api was designed as a means of "dependency injection" whereas redux was designed for managing state across an entire application. Passing data through props is practically the same, as before the hooks api - avoid prop drilling etc... if you're simply looking at avoiding prop-drilling and just passing some stateful value to another component thats deeply nested then context is your friend - as for redux, I personally am further inclined to hookstate as I think their api is really strong.

Redux

redux - Redux is a key tool used in managing state across an application. This can be used with any web technology including React, Vue and Angular docs

Redux is a client-state library.

react-redux: A powerhouse for efficient state management and data flow control. Learn more

Reducer-based: requires dispatching actions to update a big centralised state, often called a “single source of truth”. In this group, we have Redux and Zustand.

I am _thrilled_ to announce that:

Redux Toolkit 2.0 is LIVE!!!

- https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/releases/tag/v2.0.0

This major version has new features, faster perf, smaller bundle size, and removes deprecated options.

It's accompanied by majors for all our Redux family packages

## RTK 2.0:

- a new `combineSlices` method for lazy-loading reducers - Updates to `createSlice` to include a `selectors` field and allow defining thunks inside

- Immer 10 w/ faster updates

- Removal of deprecated options

See the migration guide:

- https://redux.js.org/usage/migrations/migrating-rtk-2

All of the Redux libraries now have modernized packaging with full ESM/CJS compat. They also ship modern JS (no transpiling for IE11), which means smaller bundle sizes.

We've also done byte-shaving work to shrink the bundles (extracting error messages, de-duping imports)

## Redux core 5.0:

- The TS conversion we did in 2019!

- Action types _must_ be strings

- `UnknownAction` as the default action type

- Better preloaded state types

- Internal subscription improvements

- Still marks `createStore` as deprecated!

- https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/releases/tag/v5.0.0

## React-Redux 9.0:

- *Now requires React 18 and RTK 2.0 / Redux 5.0*

DEV is a Rails monolith, which uses Preact in the front-end using islands architecture. The reason why I mention all this is that it's not a full-stack JavaScript application, and there is no state management library like Redux or Zustand in use. The data store, for the most part on the front end, is all data attributes.

Oh hey, that's my post!

(yes I spend too much time refreshing HN :) )

FWIW I did end up with a packaging combination that seems to work sufficiently. I never did fix the "FalseCJS" issue that `are-the-types-wrong` is detecting. I played with double-emitting TS typedefs, and the `tsup` tool _does_ actually have support for that now (added by Andrew Branch from the TS team). So it might be more feasible now. But ultimately I decided I was tired of messing with packaging setup and that what I've got is good enough. (hopefully)

We're actually about to launch Redux Toolkit 2.0 and Redux 5.0 this week, assuming the last couple pieces come together. Here's the latest RCs - you can see the current `package.json` files in there:

- https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/releases/tag/v2.0.0...

- https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/releases/tag/v5.0.0-rc.1