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Legend-State

Legend-State is a super fast and powerful state manager for JavaScript apps with two primary goals:

1. 🦄 As easy as possible to use

There is no boilerplate and there are no actions, reducers, selectors, dispatchers, sagas, thunks, or epics. Observables are just normal objects that you can listen to for changes.

// Create an observable object
const state = observable({ settings: { theme: 'dark' } })

// Observables work like any other object
state.settings.theme === 'dark' // true

// observe re-runs when any observables change
observe(() => {
    console.log(state.settings.theme)
})

// Observer components automatically track observables and re-render when they change
const Component = observer(function Component() => {
    const theme = state.settings.theme.get()

    return <div>Theme: {theme}</div>
})

2. ⚡️ The fastest React state library

Legend-State beats every other state library on just about every metric and is so optimized for arrays that it even beats vanilla JS on the swap benchmark. At only 3kb and with the massive reduction in boilerplate code, you'll have big savings in file size too.

See the documentation for more details.

Install

npm install @legendapp/state or yarn add @legendapp/state

Example

// Create an observable object
const state = observable({ settings: { theme: 'dark' } })

// Observables work like any other object
state.settings.theme === 'dark'   // true

// Listen anywhere for changes
state.settings.theme.onChange((theme) => { ... })

// observe re-runs when any observables change
observe(() => {
    console.log(state.settings.theme)
})

// Modify with simple set functions
state.settings.theme.set('light')

// Automatically persist state
persistObservable(state, { local: 'exampleState' })

// Components re-render only when accessed observables change
const Component = observer(function Component() {
    const toggle = () => {
        state.settings.theme.set(theme => theme === 'dark' ? 'light' : 'dark')
    }
    return (
        <div>
            <div>Theme: {state.settings.theme}</div>
            <Button onClick={toggle}>
                Toggle theme
            </Button>
        </div>
    )
}

Highlights

  • ✨ Super easy to use - observables are normal objects
  • ✨ No boilerplate
  • ✨ Safe from 🔫 footguns
  • ✨ Designed for maximum performance and scalability
  • ✨ React components re-render only on changes
  • ✨ Very strongly typed with TypeScript
  • ✨ Persistence plugins for automatically saving/loading from storage
  • ✨ State can be global or within components

Read more about why Legend-State might be right for you.

Documentation

See the documentation site.

Todo

  • Remote persistence to Firebase
  • Conflict resolution for remote persistence

👩‍⚖️ License

MIT


Legend-State is created and maintained by Jay Meistrich with Legend and Bravely.

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