Recoil is a state management library for React applications that aims to offer a better and simpler way to manage state across your components. Recoil gives you the power of React hooks but also offers persistent and asynchronous states out of the box. Recoil is designed to be flexible and works with any React component no matter how it was originally created.
Alternatives: redux, mobx, zustand
Tags: javascriptlibrarystate-managementreact
rest-hooks
v7.0.17(8 months ago)
Rest-hooks is a powerful data fetching and caching library for React applications. It provides a declarative way to manage and synchronize data between your components and RESTful APIs. Rest-hooks leverages the concept of resource-oriented architecture, allowing you to define resources and their relationships, and automatically handling data fetching, caching, and invalidation.
Recoil and Rest Hooks are both popular npm packages in the React ecosystem. Recoil, developed by Facebook, has gained significant popularity since its release and has a growing community. Rest Hooks, although relatively newer, has also gained attention and has a dedicated user base.
State Management
Recoil is a state management library specifically designed for React applications. It provides a simple and intuitive API for managing global state. Rest Hooks, on the other hand, is primarily focused on data fetching and caching. It provides a declarative way to fetch and manage RESTful resources.
Developer Experience
Recoil offers a familiar React-like API and integrates seamlessly with React components. It provides features like atom, selector, and useRecoilState/useRecoilValue hooks for managing state. Rest Hooks also provides a straightforward API and integrates well with React. It offers hooks like useResource and useFetcher for handling data fetching and caching.
Performance
Recoil is optimized for performance and leverages React's built-in optimizations like React's concurrent mode and React's memoization. It also provides features like selective re-rendering to minimize unnecessary re-renders. Rest Hooks also focuses on performance and provides intelligent caching mechanisms to optimize data fetching and reduce unnecessary network requests.
Community and Ecosystem
Recoil benefits from being developed by Facebook and has a strong community support. It has an active GitHub repository, regular updates, and a growing ecosystem of extensions and integrations. Rest Hooks, although relatively newer, has an active community and is backed by a dedicated team. It has a smaller ecosystem compared to Recoil but is actively maintained and improved.
