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by skinkestek 567 days ago
I have yet to see a single case of any state management library actually improve state handling.

Lately I have started removing these libraries were possible and the maintainability has improved a lot.

Thankfully at my latest place there was no one when I came and I haven't seen a more productive team doing frontend.

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It always works nicely when things are small, but becomes extremely painful for large products or teams (100+).
Which always seemed a bit ironic, considering those libraries are presumably intended to make state management work better if you really have to do a lot of it (i.e., have a large product).
At MPOW we have a bunch of state-managing components for complex cases, like multi-page forms or API-backed grids with tons of filters, etc. They take some effort to get the hang of them, but after that they save large amounts of boilerplate.