npm install zustand

Small, fast and scaleable bearbones state-management solution. Has a comfy api based on hooks, isn't that boilerplatey or opinionated, but still just enough to be explicit and flux-like, breaches reconciler boundaries. You can check out a small live demo here.

Create a store (or multiple, up to you...)

import create from 'zustand'

// Name your store anything you like, but remember, it's a hook!
const [useStore] = create(set => ({
  // Everything in here is your state
  count: 1,
  // You don't have to nest your actions, but makes it easier to fetch them later on
  actions: {
    inc: () => set(state => ({ count: state.count + 1 })), // same semantics as setState
    dec: () => set(state => ({ count: state.count - 1 })),
  },
}))

Bind components

function Counter() {
  // Will only re-render the component when "count" changes
  const count = useStore(state => state.count)
  return <h1>{count}</h1>
}

function Controls() {
  // "actions" isn't special, we just named it like that to fetch updaters easier 
  const { inc, dec } = useStore(state => state.actions)
  return (
    <>
      <button onClick={inc}>up</button>
      <button onClick={dec}>down</button>
    </>
  )
}

Receipes

Fetching everything

You can, but remember that it will cause the component to update on every state change!

const data = useStore()

Selecting multiple state slices

It's just like mapStateToProps in Redux. zustand will run a small shallow equal over the object you return. Of course, it won't cause re-renders if these properties aren't changed in the state model.

const { name, age } = useStore(state => ({ name: state.name, age: state.age }))

Or, if you prefer, atomic selects do the same ...

const name = useStore(state => state.name)
const age = useStore(state => state.age)

Fetching from multiple stores

Since you can create as many stores as you like, forwarding a result into another selector is straight forward.

const currentUser = useCredentialsStore(state => state.currentUser)
const person = usePersonStore(state => state.persons[currentUser])

Memoizing selectors (this is completely optional)

You can change the selector always! But since you essentially pass a new function every render it will subscribe and unsubscribe to the store every time. Most of the time it will bearly make a difference, but when you're dealing with dozens of connected components it is a good habit to memoize your selectors with an optional second argument that's similar to Reacts useCallback. Give it the dependencies you are interested in and it will let your selector in peace, which is faster and saves memory.

const book = useBookStore(state => state.books[title], [title])

Async actions

Just call set when you're ready, it doesn't care if your actions are async or not.

const [useStore] = create(set => ({
  result: '',
  fetch: async url => {
    const response = await fetch(url)
    const json = await response.json()
    set({ result: json })
  },
}))

Read from state in actions

The set function already allows functional update set(state => result) but should there be cases where you need to access outside of it you have an optional get, too.

const [useStore] = create((set, get) => ({
  text: "hello",
  action: () => {
    const text = get().text
    ...
  }
})

Sick of reducers and changing nested state? Use Immer!

Having to construct nested structes bearhanded is one of the worst aspects of reducing state. Try immer! It is a tiny package that allows you to work with immutable state in a more convenient way. You can easily extend your store with it.

import produce from "immer"

const [useStore] = create(set => ({
  set: fn => set(produce(fn)),
  nested: {
    structure: {
      constains: {
        a: "value"
      }
    }
  },
})

const set = useStore(state => state.set)
set(draft => {
  draft.nested.structure.contains.a.value = false
  draft.nested.structure.contains.anotherValue = true
})

Reading/writing state and reacting to changes outside of components

You can use it with or without React out of the box.

const [, api] = create(set => ({ n: 0, setN: n => set({ n }) }))

// Getting fresh state
const n = api.getState().n
// Listening to changes
const unsub = api.subscribe(state => console.log(state.n))
// Updating state, will trigger listeners
api.getState().setN(1)
// Unsubscribing handler
unsub()
// Destroying the store
api.destroy()