Deno is still the hottest of the JavaScript world, following the official release of the version 1 we mentioned last week.

The second hottest project of the week is a library from Facebook called Recoil.

React being only a view layer and not a full framework, state management has always been challenging in React projects, leaving developers facing difficult choices.

Flux (from Facebook too) and Redux are two very popular solutions.

However there is a trend towards lighter solutions based on React hooks and Context, one of my favorite solutions being Unstated Next.

Check the State Management tag from Best of JavaScript in to get an overview of the main contenders.

Recoil introduces the concept of “atoms” and aims to solve three issues to manage the state in an efficient way:

• how to share state between components
• how to handle derived data (data that can be computed from a single source of truth but does not need to be stored)
• how to observe application-wide changes

It’s so promising that it may be the solution that powers Best of JavaScript UI soon!