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(Originally posted on HackerNoon).

Recoil introduced the atomic model to the React world. Its new powers came at the cost of a steep learning curve and sparse learning resources.

Jotai and Zedux later simplified various aspects of this new model, offering many new features and pushing the limits of this amazing new paradigm.

Other articles will focus on the differences between these tools. This article will focus on one big feature that all 3 have in common:

They fixed Flux.

Original photo by trail on Unsplash

(Originally posted on HackerNoon).

In a recent conversation about state management in React, the topic of scalability came up. I was disappointed, but not at all surprised to hear it written off as an unimportant buzzword.

Having been a fly on the React state management wall for 8 years, I've seen this general sentiment expressed over and over: All popular React state management solutions are "scalable" and that's all you need to know.

It isn't.

Join me for a minute and I'll tell you why.

Zedux is a molecular state engine for React. After years spent as proprietary software hidden in a private GitHub repo, it's officially open-sourced and version 1.0.0 has been released!

Zedux: A Molecular State Engine for React is officially open-sourced and version 1.0.0 has been released!

Check it out on GitHub here. Check out the docs here. Check out the introduction here. Check out the quick start here.

This article will give a brief history of Zedux while trying to stay high-level. If you like your announcements detailed and mixed with a little controversy, check out the follow-up article, "Zedux: Is this the one?".