[AskJS] How do people manage complex data and server interactions without classes or ORM in an SPA? Where is my Backbone for React?

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  • axios

    Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

  • You can use a good and easy to use request library, like axios (~5.6Kb) to make http requests, and a cache library, like axios-cache-interceptor (~3.84Kb, which i'm the maintainer btw), and let the cache plugin to take care of invalidating, requesting and storing it's data.

  • axios-cache-interceptor

    📬 Small and efficient cache interceptor for axios. Etag, Cache-Control, TTL, HTTP headers and more!

  • You can use a good and easy to use request library, like axios (~5.6Kb) to make http requests, and a cache library, like axios-cache-interceptor (~3.84Kb, which i'm the maintainer btw), and let the cache plugin to take care of invalidating, requesting and storing it's data.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • zustand

    🐻 Bear necessities for state management in React

  • I can recommend Zustand (~954 Bytes OMG) and Recoil (~22.3Kb) for React.

  • 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.

  • I can recommend Zustand (~954 Bytes OMG) and Recoil (~22.3Kb) for React.

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