Comment by troupo
2 days ago
React is very far from signals (and very far from sane state management). Better alternatives:
- SolidJS (kickstarted the whole signals revolution)
- Svelte
- Preact (and Preact Signals)
- Well, even Angular got signals now
I actually created the library after being exposed to Angular Signals starting from the v16 release. I watched some talks and read articles about Signals, just to know about Ryan Carniato from SolidJS. He did an excellent job teaching the world about Signals!
React doesn't really make many assumptions regarding state management. You're free to pick the library you want. Redux used to be the standard, but I worked on applications purely using RxJS, the way signals are presented in this article.
> You're free to pick the library you want.
They are all still pretty hampered by React's model: re-render (internally, in VDOM) the whole component on any minor change.
There's also Datastar that uses signals and ends up being the best of HTMX and Alpine.js combined (at a smaller bundle size too).
https://data-star.dev/