Recap of the state management history in React

• redux-thunk

  33 17,732 7.4 TypeScript

  Thunk middleware for Redux

  

Since it was a relatively low level tool, just like React, that gave a lot of freedom to the user to find different ways to make it work for them. In particular when it came to async operations Redux itself gave no official solution. The most popular options are redux-thunk, redux-observable, and redux-saga. There were probably a dozen more options out there.

• SWR

  243 29,383 8.4 TypeScript

  React Hooks for Data Fetching

  

Libraries like react-query and SWR offer a very thin layer around data fetching that is able to manage your state as well. Or at least the state that has to be fetche from some remote location.

• SurveyJS

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• react-relay

  50 18,180 9.7 Rust

  Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications.

  

With the GraphQL revolution people realized that for plenty of applications data fetching is so coupled with state management that it was probably a good idea to marry the two into a single abomination solution. And thus Apollo and Relay showed up.

• redux-saga

  42 22,506 4.0 JavaScript

  An alternative side effect model for Redux apps

  

Since it was a relatively low level tool, just like React, that gave a lot of freedom to the user to find different ways to make it work for them. In particular when it came to async operations Redux itself gave no official solution. The most popular options are redux-thunk, redux-observable, and redux-saga. There were probably a dozen more options out there.

• Recoil

  81 19,447 4.7 JavaScript

  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.

  

This is when solutions like Recoil and Jotai come into play. The elevator pitch is: imagine if useState was global.

• jotai

  107 17,217 9.3 TypeScript

  👻 Primitive and flexible state management for React

  

This is when solutions like Recoil and Jotai come into play. The elevator pitch is: imagine if useState was global.

• flux

  26 17,417 6.7 JavaScript

  Discontinued Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces

  

Then came Flux.

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