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Redux is like "everything a global variable"?

klappleseed — Fri, 14 May 2021 16:16:59 +0000

After using Redux for a while, it just seems like Redux is saying "Everything will be a global variable", and we send messages or events (action objects) to alter them! That's our paradigm."

Imagine, now, if you write any JavaScript program, Ruby program, Python, Java, C++, and people tell you, "we make everything a global variable and now we send messages to alter them, ok?"

That's a big pool of variables and it can be a total mess. I still remember I wrote Apple Basic program, and then I learned Pascal, and I thought, "Local Variables", "Self contained", "Encapsulated", "Not contaminate the global scope" -- these are so cool and these is one of the coolest invention of programming. So Redux is taking that away.

Often I go into a project, and it is selectors after selectors, and then the tons of createSelector() to merge selectors into more selectors, and the tons of reducers. I am not even sure what I am programming.

I can't get used to Reselect in React / Redux

klappleseed — Tue, 11 May 2021 23:49:48 +0000

I didn't use Reselect before, and got in the new job. This new project uses reselect and I am somewhat puzzled. It even has the memoized createSelector(). But the manager pretty much hope we finish 1 Jira ticket per day, if not multiple Jira tickets per day, on our first work day after onboarding... so I am overwhelmed... and no, the manager will not take explanation.

How does Vue.js, Angular, or Ember do data store?

klappleseed — Sun, 09 May 2021 21:01:48 +0000

How does Vue.js, Angular, or Ember do data store? I found React's Redux a bit complicated / messy and have a lot of boilerplates, usually with a lot of selectors after selectors and createSelector(), and tons of reducers.

I know I don't have to use Redux with React, but most projects I have seen (and have to use at work) use Redux.