oskarkaminski/books-cataloging

React & Mobx - minimal setup

This is a minimal setup for applications, that would like to utilize react with a fast, reliable, and scalable solution for state management.

Getting started

As usual, run:

1. npm i
2. npm start

And enjoy coding.

What is part of this repo?

This repo comes with a simple counter, that gets incremented after clicking on it. It demonstrates how react works with mobx together, and sets you up for fast development of your app.

Decorators

This project uses decorators that are an experimental feature. Decorators are officially supported by Mobx and a default way to go. They make your code simplier by isolating abstraction with for example boxing your primitives.

There are also starters that prevents developers from using decorators like Create react app.

I don't fancy this kind of starters because I don't need another parents to set me constraints on what I can use.

Do you?

Why not redux?

I've worked 3 years with redux as for now, and I prefer Mobx over redux for sake of simplicity. Working with redux I appointed multiple problems coming from its architecture decisions, and there were no good solutions for them.

Mobx has a lower learning curve, there is less boilerplate and it doesn't require changing the architecture of your application.

Contribute

Feel free to propose your changes in the Pull Requests. I'm usually very responsive.