Show HN: Federal – A minimalistic centralized React store (opens in new tab)

I agree that Redux is a horrible pain.

A week ago I started searching for a simple yet powerful solution for the state problem in React. After trying 3 libraries (Baobab, Cerebral and react-cursor) and discarding without trying a bunch more (Derivable, partial-lenses, Cycle and others), I ended up writing the app in Elm (still doing it).

Federal seems like a better Redux, but still too complected[0]. Ideally, I would want something like Baobab (a central store with cursors/lenses and event emitters), but with immutable data structures (not Object.freeze) and without the bugs. Since this ideal will never come (and I won't write it myself) I'll probably use Federal for my next app that could not be written in Elm.

[0]: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

I like the idea. I always wanted something of a "lightweight Redux" (admittedly, I never looked very hard).

I'll give this a try soon. Thanks for putting in the time.

Any attempts at implementing it with TypeScript? Also would love some examples in `class`-y components.