kea VS redux

Whereas with Redux (and abstractions such as Kea) you subscribe to specific parts of the redux tree on a per-component level. Said differently, if you only update one value in Redux, only the components that read it will update. With Context, the entire app will update.

React and React Native share many core libraries. You can use the same state management libraries like Redux, MobX, and data fetching libraries like Axios or the Fetch API.

Redux Documentation

Redux is a state management library for JavaScript applications that provides a centralized store for managing the state of an app. It follows a predictable state container model where actions are dispatched to trigger state changes, and reducers are used to define how the state transitions in response to those actions. Redux enforces immutability and a unidirectional data flow, which makes debugging easier and state transitions predictable.

To learn more about Redux, check out the official Redux documentation. To learn more about Context API, check out the official React documentation.

I most recently interviewed Dan Abramov, creator of Redux and React core team member, about his work at Bluesky and the development of Bluesky's underlying technology – Authenticated Transfer Protocol, or AT Proto for short. I learned that while TBD’s Web5 and Bluesky’s AT Proto share the vision of a decentralized and user-centric web, their approaches and underlying technologies offer a fascinating contrast. I'll examine these parallel approaches in hopes that TBD, Bluesky, and the broader community can gain valuable insights into building infrastructure for the decentralized web.

State management is one of the most important part of a web application. From the use of global variables to React hooks to the use of third-party libraries like MobX, Redux or XState to name just these 3, it is one of the topics that fuels the most discussions as it is important to master it to design a reliable and efficient application.

Official Website

Redux: Offers a more structured approach with a centralized store, actions, and reducers, especially beneficial for larger teams and projects. Redux Documentation

Redux is one of the most popular libraries but not necessarily one of the easiest ones to use. Its a predictable state container for JavaScript apps, widely used in the React ecosystem. It has powerful developer tools that help understand and debug the apps state and also a large ecosystem of middleware and extensions. On the other hand using Redux requires a steep learning curve of the relations between a reducer, an action and a dispatcher and also quite a lot of boilerplate code. Redux is actually notorious for that boilerplate code, which is something that I don't recommend overlooking.