reactn VS Dexie.js

Have a look at ReactN

If you want to move to hooks for state management I suggest ReactN.

ReactN because it demonstrated engaging with and supporting customers to balance priorities and deliver results.

My open source React state management library ReactN helped me get a job at AWS, because it showed customer obsession.

I love ReactN.

Look into ReactN which uses hooks, has lower overhead, no boilerplate, and is much easier to use and learn than Redux.

I myself started a few years ago using ReactN which intends to implement global state management in a similar way like the local state in react works. But since this is a monolithic store too I recently switched to (the very unknown) React Capsule which is from the same dev, extremely lightweight, similar to recoil and intends to use encapsulated state which can be used either in plain JS, in class components, as well as in function components.

Dexie.js

The word on the street is that https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite is nearly production ready, closing in on the neat 1.0.0 release, with its IDBBatchAtomic engine highly recommended at https://www.powersync.com/blog/sqlite-persistence-on-the-web. You can try out the benchmark https://rhashimoto.github.io/wa-sqlite/demo/benchmarks.html.

And the other contestant is Dexie, stable https://dexie.org/.

If you were to branch into a new venture today, which one would you pick? And why?

That said, there are some great ways to wrap IndexedDB to make it easier to work with. Since I’m writing this article I’ll toss in my local-first framework Verdant, which can be used without the sync features as a standalone IndexedDB-powered database with a type-safe schema and deployable data migrations. For a lighter-weight approach, maybe check out Dexie.

Using IndexedDB. I have heard its pretty cumbersome to use. There are wrappers like Dexie.js but I am not sure if it works seamlessly with Tauri or if it is the correct thing for my use case.

I use IndexedDB, specifically the idb library (https://github.com/jakearchibald/idb), or Dexie.js (https://dexie.org/) if you are more novice. This works great for large sets of data. For smaller amounts, Chrome Storage API will do.

To make things easier, Dexie.js provides a straightforward and simplified process of creating databases, storing data, updating data and database migrations, etc., over the top of indexedDB.