A (Brief) History of Redux

[sedationh]

I've been looking into Redux lately, and its history is pretty interesting. I wanna jot down the main points here.

• 2011: JS MVC Frameworks
  • MVC: AngularJS, Ember, and Backbone
  • Hard to predicte
• 2014: Flux
  • Flux
    • all the state update logic would be semi-centralized
    • predictable
  • announced this "Flux Architecture" concept around 2014, didn't provide a full library that implemented that pattern. That led the React community to build dozens of Flux-inspired libraries with variations on the pattern.
• 2015: The Birth of Redux
  • Redux: Flux + functional programming principles
  • The idea was to demonstrate "time-travel debugging" for a conference talk
  • React only had its legacy Context API, which had was basically broken: it couldn't properly pass updated values down
  • boilerplate
• 2017: Ecosystem Competition
  • new React Context API
  • Redux wasn't nearly as "required" as it used to be
• 2019: Redux Toolkit
  • Today, RTK is the standard way to write Redux logic. Like all tools, it has tradeoffs. RTK is probably going to be a bit more code to use than Zustand, but it also provides useful patterns for separating app logic from the UI.

https://redux.js.org/understanding/history-and-design/history-of-redux