nanostores VS valtio

[1] Nano Stores GitHub. https://github.com/nanostores/nanostores

I build a lot of micro sites, but I still use frameworks — like Deno (node alternative), Hono (for APIs), and Alpine.js (for tiny lightweight sites).

you don't have to though!

if you want to do more pure vanilla, understanding signals is really useful — this basically powers svelte's runs and react's hooks and whatever.

I love nanostores, a 286 byte (!) state manager that lets you build highly reactive pages w/o the weight: https://github.com/nanostores/nanostores

flexible tools like tinybase (https://github.com/tinyplex/tinybase) and unstorage (https://github.com/unjs/unstorage) are also super useful

tools like this lets you build highly reactive, engaging sites that load for under 50-100kb

use a shared state manager like nanostores

I retrieved access to files the directory of words using the Astro.glob() function super easily (too bad I couldn't talk about how powerful this function is; how glad I am it existed out-the-box in Astro and how much ease it brought into the flow of getting this search engine up and running) and plugged the returned array of word objects into a $dictionary state (maybe I should call this a store) powered by nanostore (another beautiful stuff right there)

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.

Nanostores explanation

vidstack is very light on technical details but starts with a concise intro and a screenshot, as well as relevant links: https://github.com/vidstack/player

payload is well-structured in general: https://github.com/payloadcms/payload

nanostores starts out with an intro and telling code examples, followed by lots of technical details: https://github.com/nanostores/nanostores

Nanostores and Reatom are also great, fast atomic libs

Astro handles multi-framework components (React, Vue, etc) and they recommend using the nanostores library for shared state.

Valtio - Valtio makes proxy-state simple for React and Vanilla

Valtio Official Repository. https://github.com/pmndrs/valtio

Oh.. yeah, the proxy part does look really familiar! :-)

Also, their use of promises looks interesting: https://github.com/pmndrs/valtio?tab=readme-ov-file#suspend-... -- I might borrow some ideas from that... :-)

I explored libraries like Valtio and Mitosis, but neither fit perfectly. I didn’t want to add a peer dependency for Valtio, and Mitosis didn’t work well with a shared context.

The people behind Jotai also made Zustand and Valtio:

https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand

https://github.com/pmndrs/valtio

To me it feels like Jotai has too much manual boilerplate and Valtio has a lot of "magic" that while I do like it I don't feel like it would be a good idea for a team. Zustand sits right in the middle of boilerplate-vs-magic, and is what I chose for a large project we're doing now.

As I was reading the Supabase source code for “fun”, I came across a package named Valtio.

We took inspiration from the many frameworks we worked with throughout our careers. And maybe surprisingly, Django’s ORM layer impacted our design choices and the API quite a bit. The resulting framework relies on Zod for schemas and validation and Valtio for React integration.