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options for async actions in redux
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asyncRedux.md

Note: These aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. E.g. we may want to use promise with thunk to get better ergonomics for certain kinds of effects.

Thunk

Learnability: 4
Testability: 4
Happy path: 4
Purity: 2
SLOC: 14

  • Doesn't do a lot for you. Just makes it easy to do async actions

redux-promise

Learnability: 3
Testability: 4
Happy path: 4
Purity: 3
SLOC: 150

redux-observable

Learnability: 2
Testability: 4
Happy path: 4
Purity: 4
SLOC: 140

  • Requires some stream lib like Rx or Most

Sagas

Learnability: 1
Testability: 1
Happy path: 4
SLOC: 1400

  • Easy to sequence async tasks and group them once you get the hang of it
  • Lots of helpers for debouncing and more
  • procedural

There's other options I excluded or didn't investigate. If there's one I should look at let me know.

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