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dustingetz
react-cursor
JavaScript2014–2017
dustingetz / react-cursor · Archived

react-cursor

Immutable state for React.js

4Distinct people
19Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
1KGitHub stars
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Immutable state for React.js

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No documented product use has been verified yet.

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I am the author of react-cursor, which abstracts over the react immutability helpers[1], which I have used in four large projects. It scales great and I recommend it over…

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-07-21 19:26:03 UTC to 2017-11-01 16:13:38 UTC.

02468102014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2017

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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> Application state as a single, immutable data structure. react-cursor gives this pattern in javascript, immutability and all, but with regular old javascript objects. It also comes with all the same caveats as in this article. (I don't speak for the creator of Om, I speak for myself as the author of this library which was inspired by Om and Clojure) https://github.com/dustingetz/react-cursor/ The beautiy of the state-at-root pattern with cursors, is that each little component, each subtree of the view, can stand alone as its own little stateful app, and they naturally nest/compose recursively into larger apps. This fiddle is meant to demonstrate this: https://jsfiddle.net/dustingetz/n9kfc17x/ > The tree is really a graph. Solving this impedance mismatch is the main UI research problem of 2015/2016. Om Next, GraphQL, Falcor etc. It's sti
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ll a research problem, IMO. The solution will also solve the object/relational impedance mismatch, i think, which is a highly related problem, maybe the same problem.
In Why We Use Om, and Why We’re Excited for Om Next

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