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MobX Quick Start Guide
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MobX Quick Start Guide

by Pavan Podila, Michel Weststrate
July 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
236 pages
5h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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MobX versus Redux

In principle, MobX and Redux accomplish the same goal of providing a uni-directional data flow. The store is the central actor that manages all state changes and notifies the UI and other observers of the change in state. The mechanism to achieve that is quite different between MobX and Redux.

Redux relies on immutable state snapshots and reference-comparisons between two state snapshots to check for changes. In contrast, MobX thrives on mutable state and uses a granular notification system to track state changes. This fundamental difference in approach has implications on the Developer eXperience (DX) of using each framework. We will use the DX of building a single feature to perform a MobX versus Redux comparison.

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