valtio VS Recoil

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.

Valtio is like simplified MobX

Even simpler than Zustand are state-atom libraries like jotai or recoil, or proxy based ones like valtio. Here's some discussion about the differences.

There is a package developed around this proxy concept called Valtio which is available for JavaScript, React, and so on... feel free to check and star it on Github.

I'm switching from redux-saga to valtio (https://github.com/pmndrs/valtio) for now. It's simple and easy to use, everything's great so far.

I like valtio, works w/ React or just js. Has subscribe, derive, and more.

https://github.com/pmndrs/valtio

Jotai and Valtio are both also really good. Recently looked at Nanostore as well and has some similarity to Jotai and Recoil.

Since we want the React component to react to an external change, using a state manager makes this easy. We will use Valtio here by example. For this library, change the esbuild config to --target=es2020 instead to remove some warnings (for example, the Zustand library is ok).

Atom-based: splits states into tiny pieces of data called atoms, which can be written to and read from using React hooks. In this group, we have Recoil and Jotai.

recoil -> Designed to solve a specific problem. Not good for all use cases. Understand it first! You can learn more about it here.

Recoil Official Website

Recoil 🌀

Atomic libs include Recoil, Jotai, and the one I maintain: Zedux. Zedux especially was designed to work well with sockets and RxJS observables and has been getting some traction recently, so of course I recommend checking it out. Feel free to hmu with any questions.

However you may find better luck with Recoil which is developed by Meta, and is designed to work with Async data, and is a much simpler project to get started with.

Recoil introduced a new pattern for storing state and propagating updates. This atomic model has proven to scale up better than the singleton model at the cost of some hefty learning curves.

recoil is extremely similar to Riverpod but for React (both are backed by a data flow graph).

Before we proceed you can check the project on github. This implementation is for learning purposes, for production use check Jotai or Recoil.