@iadvize/store

This is a monorepo for the experimental @iadvize-oss/store, a lightweight Javascript store library and its React bindings and devtools helper.

Why

We used to rely heavily on Redux at iAdvize, using the library as the defacto state storage of our frontend apps.

We've started to question this systemic use of Redux. We’re not the only ones as we’ve seen actors of the frontend community having the same questions and shipping alternatives that :

• want to respond to scaling issues, view-binding complexity and rendering headache (React useState, Recoil)

• want to respond to architecture issues, where the rule of having one only store for all the data of the app does not make sense (Dan Abramov's famous “local state is fine”, Recoil and the ecosystem of small store libs built with React in mind like react-hooks-global-state)

• want to offer a better developper experience, reducing the Redux boilerplate and the reducer / middleware duality

Listening on these discussions, and working on new internal apps, we started to understand that Redux does not match all of our frontend app architectures.

Some of our apps rely only on GraphQL and do not need a global store. They will use only a few local useState. Other apps follow a DDD / layers architecture were we would like to have basic stores in the infrastructure layer with no functional api bound to it unlike what Redux wants us to do with actions.

Other apps cannot rely on specific React-only store libraries like Recoil because they also need to access this state in other parts of their codebase where React isn't an option (legacy views, low-level code, etc.).

That’s why we created this new store library.

It’s lightweight. A store will only provide read, apply and subscribe methods, in the FP way.

It’s composable. You can take multiple stores and combine them. You can select a subpart of one store’s state.

It offers a React binding library à la react-redux and a Redux-devtools-compatible debugger.

Packages

• @iadvize-oss/store. The store.
• @iadvize-oss/store-react. React bindings.
• @iadvize-oss/store-devtools. Devtools