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Ask HN: What to Learn in 2020: Redux vs. RxJS vs. Context-API

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Starting a greenfield React app, is it still state-of-the art to use Redux as state manager. Will Redux still be around in 2 years or will it be replaced by simpler options? Any thoughts on that?

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Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. I can confirm that Redux will be around for a very long time, and it's easier to use it now than ever before.

Please see my post "Redux - Not Dead Yet!" [0] for information on how Redux compares to other options like context in today's React ecosystem.

Also, note that you should be using our new official Redux Toolkit package [1] to write your Redux logic, our "Style Guide" docs page [2] provides guidance on recommended patterns and best practices, and our Redux templates for Create-React-App [3] come with RTK and React-Redux hooks set up out of the box.

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/03/redux-not-dead-yet...

[1] https://redux-toolkit.js.org

[2] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide

[3] https://github.com/reduxjs/cra-template-redux

It's the same every year: learn and completely understand the basics - the rest will follow.

If you know how latest react works you don't need redux or rxjs as hooks can solve most problems in a reusable way.

Example: https://github.com/oldboyxx/jira_clone

Redux will be around for a while due to the number of people who already use it, but may not be a first choice at some point.

RxJS is kind of equivalent to Promises + Utils. You can use it to structure code, but it won’t solve state issues on its own.

I don’t know enough context api to comment on it.

To me it looks like you can implement a proven MVC architecture using React Hooks and RxJS: https://blog.logrocket.com/rxjs-with-react-hooks-for-state-m...

So should it be powerfull enought?

... Not exactly an MVC but a separation between view and business using the subscriber pattern.

In that case you are using hooks to manage your state and RxJS to abstract over the concurrent behavior. IIRC you can use a few things to handle concurrency for hooks like promises, Async/await, or callbacks.

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