Understand the core problems state management libraries need to solve. And how the proliferation of modern libraries address them in new ways.

Kirill Kurko

OpenAI

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React applications face challenges in managing shared global state, leading to the development of various state management libraries. These libraries need to address problems such as reading and updating stored state, optimizing runtime performance, and managing memory usage. Different libraries take different approaches to solve these problems. Understanding these problems and the available solutions can help choose the right state management library for specific application needs.

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Interesting, but a bit lengthy article. I started from Redux, but nowadays mostly use react-query. For most apps I find no need for explicit state management, since what you usually have is just a replication of CRUD. React context can also be useful in a combination with it.
That’s also what we based <a href="https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp</a> on, and it’s been working really well so far.

I guess this scenario will change way more after server actions and server components.