redux-saga VS Recoil

Compare redux-saga vs Recoil and see what are their differences.

redux-saga

An alternative side effect model for Redux apps (by redux-saga)

Recoil

Recoil is an experimental state management library for React apps. It provides several capabilities that are difficult to achieve with React alone, while being compatible with the newest features of React. (by facebookexperimental)
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redux-saga Recoil
42 81
22,507 19,411
0.0% 0.5%
4.4 4.7
11 days ago 4 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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redux-saga

Posts with mentions or reviews of redux-saga. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-04.
  • Main-Thread-Scheduling
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2024
  • Creating Own Chat GPT
    9 projects | dev.to | 15 Sep 2023
    For the backend, we chose Python, Django Rest Framework. On the frontend, React, Redux, Saga, Sass. Let’s start with the backend, which was managed by Yegor. He writes about the server part of the project himself.
  • Internals of Async / Await in JavaScript
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2023
    The whole article properly the best explanation of generators I have come across. This quote stuck out:

    > Generators are a special type of function that can return multiple pieces of data during its execution. Traditional functions can return multiple data by using structures like Arrays and Objects, but Generators return data whenever the caller asks for it, and they pause execution until they are asked to continue to generate and return more data.

    Applications of generators? I have only used Redux-Saga[1]. Can't even think of other libraries that use them, but would be interested in learning.

    [1]: https://redux-saga.js.org/

  • Generators in the wild
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 Aug 2023
    redux-saga. The most popular effects library in js
  • I don't get why I should use Redux
    6 projects | /r/webdev | 9 Mar 2023
    Redux can be extended with a lot of other packages. For example with a side effect manager, you can separate side effects from your business logic, help with error handling and in the same process make testing of side effects a lot easier.
  • What Is The Best Name for This Synchronous Function?
    4 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 3 Feb 2023
    Consumer vs. Producer: Check out Redux Saga
  • Front-end Guide
    54 projects | dev.to | 23 Nov 2022
    Your app will likely have to deal with async calls like making remote API requests. redux-thunk and redux-saga were created to solve those problems. They may take some time to understand as they require understanding of functional programming and generators. Our advice is to deal with it only when you need it.
  • Why Would Anyone Need JavaScript Generator Functions?
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2022
    Hey thanks for the thoughtful response.

    I agree with everything you mentioned here. I'd love to continue to chat with you about how to make testing sagas better.

    If you'd like, it would be great if we could move this convo to https://github.com/redux-saga/redux-saga/discussions/2337

    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2022
    Redux-sagas[0] makes great use of generators. I found it a fantastic tool, if you're already in the redux ecosystem, and have an application that sprawls enough to benefit. It's great when you have to manage multiple process lifecycles. A single "saga" can represent the entire lifespan of a session in just a few lines of code, a socket or similar long-lived process, with clear code branches to shorter-lived handlers or other sagas for the details.

    The downsides are:

    - a quirky syntax that needs learning, and is of the "loose with semantics" style - like Rails-eque REST's play with HTTP methods

    - it's hard to test (despite what the documentation claims). It's highly declarative, and such code seems hard to test.

    [0] http://redux-saga.js.org/

  • What is the best plan to catch data from multiple api calls and display some data
    2 projects | /r/reactjs | 16 Oct 2022
    If there are dependent API calls, you can probably look at redux-saga. It’s one of the best libraries out there to manage the data.

Recoil

Posts with mentions or reviews of Recoil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing redux-saga and Recoil you can also consider the following projects:

redux-toolkit - The official, opinionated, batteries-included toolset for efficient Redux development

react-query - πŸ€– Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for TS/JS, React, Solid, Svelte and Vue. [Moved to: https://github.com/TanStack/query]

rtk-query - Data fetching and caching addon for Redux Toolkit

zustand - 🐻 Bear necessities for state management in React

axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

MobX - Simple, scalable state management.

SWR - React Hooks for Data Fetching

jotai - πŸ‘» Primitive and flexible state management for React

rematch - The Redux Framework