[jho406]

Full disclosure, I’m the author of Breezy, https://github.com/jho406/Breezy. An opinionated state shape and PJAX library for Redux.

I think “how you shape your state to make it easy to reduce and share between components” is an important topic that’s taken a backseat when discussing state management tooling.

Should I repeat my backend models? Should I use a redux ORM? How much should I denormalize or normalize?

I found it much easier to just denormalize everything and shape state for presentational purposes, e.g, I have a bunch of page nodes in my redux state each with a duplicated header. If I need to make an update to the header in response to, say, a change in user email, I change each duplicated header individually.

Sounds insane but it really works for me and let’s me keep more business logic in the backend where it belongs.