SocketCluster VS redux-devtools

If redis doesn't satisfy your requirements or you're unable to make it work using adaptor, SocketCluster is a great package for this https://socketcluster.io/

Interesting how this feature set is pretty much exactly the same as offered by SocketCluster https://socketcluster.io/

This resonates with me 100%. Every bit of unhappiness I've felt in my career so far has been caused by a bad manager. The main issue for me has been the final point you mentioned about "Imposed artificial limitations" - I cannot tell you the number of times that I've been forced to use an inefficient tool or do something in a sub-optimal or downright incorrect way (knowing that it would have to be re-written later) by a bad manager... In some companies, it was a daily occurrence; that's why I never stayed at a single company for longer than 2 years. It's almost impossible to find a company that lets me implement things correctly.

Thankfully, nobody could constrain me in my open source work. I (with the help of community members) built:

- SocketCluster (https://socketcluster.io/): A distributed pub/sub framework.

- Capitalisk (https://capitalisk.com/): A lightweight quantum-resistant blockchain which is less than 5K lines of code.

- LDEX (https://ldex.trading/): A deterministic decentralized exchange (DEX) which can work with many different blockchain protocols. It's less than 4K lines of code in total and only has 3 small third-party dependencies (including sub-dependencies).

The two best lightweight solutions I have worked with are SocketCluster and NATS. SocketCluster is used to build out a custom backend that scales very well. NATS would be used as a central pub/sub system. If you need queueing, you'll need to add additional services like Redis.

In the homepage for SocketCluster it is mentioned that it is a Highly scalable pub/sub and RPC framework optimized for async/await. However in the documentation I have not found anything related to RPC. Am I interpreting anything wrong here?

At the time of writing, SocketCluster has almost 6k stars on GitHub and 7k downloads on npm weekly,

SocketCluster is a framework which allows you to use the WebSocket protocol the transmit between its backend API and client library. The client can be used both on a backend (E.g. a Raspberry pi) or frontend application.

Also, you should use redux-devtools extension to get the most out of any react-redux-based project.

Use NgRx's action stream as a logging solution. Dispatch actions instead of logging. You don't have to worry about the state management part or anything either. Add the store-devtools package along with the base store package. It'll let you configure only logging while in development mode and a few other options. Then, install the Redux Devtools extension into your browser. That will give you a view of the dispatched actions and any data you want to pass along with them. It has a filter, so you can tag your actions like you normally would as described in the docs. Like, "[Log Level] [Feature] log message". Then, filter them in the dev tools to see just what you want. You can see a screenshot of it here. You may even like some of its other features and maybe you'll pick up more of the pattern as you see fit.

Redux DevTools is a browser extension that allows developers to inspect and debug Redux stores. This tool helps developers to track state changes, actions, and other data related to the Redux store. You can download it from its official GitHub repository: https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-devtools.

Redux dev tools

You can still keep your custom hooks in separate files, maybe in a folder called state. You could migrate to a state library when things start to seem unmanageable, or when you want one of the many cool features that a state library can offer, like automatically persisting parts of state to your user's storage using middleware (Redux docs, Zustand docs), easily managing API connections and query caching with RTK Query, or having a log of every state change with the ability to revert/go back in time to debug state changes with Redux Devtools (also works with Zustand).

With the redux-devtools-extension, we can now easily see all the actions that have been dispatched, as well as the current state of our store. This extension also allows us to time travel, meaning we can go back and forth through different states to see how our application got to where it is, as shown in the image below.

We need to see your RECEIVE_BENCHES action creator as well as dispatch call to tell you more. You should inspect what is going on in your reducer, either by setting a breakpoint in your editor's debug mode, by using Redux DevTools (https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-devtools), or simply by writing dirty console.log and debugger calls.

When an action is dispatched, all of the reducers will be notified and every single one of them will check if they can handle the action. Not only that, but the Redux dev tools will be a mess trying to see what action was fired when. That’s why we should try to think of actions as events that happened and not what the action is changing. For example, we should rather have an action called userLoggedIn than setUserId.