How I Learned and Implemented Recoil with No Prior Experience

#recoil #typescript #nextjs #react

Hi! I’m Aaqif, a Frontend Engineer at Gistr.

While working on our new UI, I had to manage global state across a core part of the app. I had only ever used Redux and Context but for this project, I challenged myself to try something new.

We ditched Context, skipped Redux and Zustand, and went all in on Recoil, even though I had zero prior experience with it.

In this thread, I’ve shared my learning process, implementation notes, key decisions, and what I wish I had known earlier from a complete beginner’s perspective.

👉Read the full story on Gistr’s official thread:
How We Tackled Global State with Recoil: An Engineer's Journey from Scratch

Let me know what you think — or if you're exploring Recoil yourself, happy to discuss!