While Redux is great because it enforces a single source of truth, the whole thing with "actions" and "reducers" in Redux is a huge source of boilerplate. In almost every Redux project I have worked on, developers bring in some weird scheme to reduce the boilerplate load of having to come up with a bunch of events when all that anyone wants to do is call some functions.

The fact that Redux forces you to use events to modify the store is a useless complication which has spawned reams and reams of crazy libraries like redux-thunk, redux-saga, standard action formats, etc. The craziest thing yet is Ducks: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/scaling-your-redux-app-with-.... This is a pattern which tries as hard as possible to make using events not feel like using events, by tying each event intimately to its listener.

This library is a step in the right direction, but wrapping Redux seems unnecessary. Here's a similar approach in 100 LOC: https://github.com/didierfranc/react-stateful