redux-tiles

Depends on what your definition of "magic" is. For example, we specifically have a "Reducing Boilerplate" docs page [0] that talks about writing reusable logic for reducers and action creators, like "higher order reducers" or a `createReducer()` util that accepts a lookup table of action types to handler functions. There's many existing libs that implement this kind of pattern [1]. Beyond that, there's other libraries that provide a higher level of abstraction, like automatically generating logic to handle common use cases (normalizing data, updating certain fields, etc) [2]. Updating data immutably can become complex [3], so there's a lot of immutable update utility libraries out there [4]. I recommend Immer [5], which lets you write normal mutative code but then applies the updates immutably. Finally, there's frameworks built on top o

I have a pretty small open-source-project -- https://github.com/Bloomca/redux-tiles. It is a library for javascript, which allows you to write less verbose Redux code. I don't have any social media activity (like big number of followers, etc), and had 0 stars, until I've tried to put it on Show HN. It gave me around 100 stars and some momentum, which resulted in 100 stars more over couple of months. However, it is still a pretty small project, and I can't say that it is used somewhere. I use for myself, as it solves exactly my problems, but don't really think somebody else uses it. Is it unfair? It depends on your goal -- if you build something for yourself, it is okay (but some marketing definitely won't hurt), but if you really want to share, then I think you should dedicate time on marketing -- meetups, blogs, HN, reddit, etc.

Good post and an interesting comparison with some intriguing parallels. FWIW, this was previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10381015 (126 comments). Also, related sidenote: I'm a Redux maintainer, and I love seeing what people are building with Redux and on top of Redux. Per the author's comments about later abstractions on top of WndProc, there's been a lot of interesting abstractions built on top of Redux, ranging from reusable reducer logic to higher-level libraries that try to simplify some of the setup process. I actually just gave a talk yesterday at ReactBoston on the growth of the Redux ecosystem, which showcases some of the variety of Redux-related tools and addons that are out there [0] [1]. In particular, libraries like Kea [2], Redux-Subspace [3] and Redux-Tiles [4] try to make it easier to define an