[toinbis]

Thanks for great comment! I have one question.

The biggest thing I miss in react ecosystem is decent redux ORM. https://vuex-orm.org is just so great for so many use cases (agree that it might an antipattern in many situations). Is there any chance that https://github.com/redux-orm/redux-orm, which was actually what inspired vuex-orm, would get more love from anyone to become an actively maintained library?

Thanks

[acemarke]

Great question. I actually was one of the earliest users of Redux-ORM, back when I myself was first learning Redux in 2015-16, and I wrote a blog tutorial series in 2017 that showed how to use it.

At the time, the main benefits to using Redux-ORM were easier immutable updates for items in the store, keeping items in a normalized state structure, and managing relationships between items for both lookups and updates.

Since then, Redux-ORM has changed maintainers and had its API tweaked. Meanwhile, we added a `createEntityAdapter` API [0] to RTK, which handles normalization and some CRUD-style updates to the data. Even without those CRUD helpers, you can still do `state.entities[itemId].someValue = 123` thanks to Immer, so immutable updates are taken care of.

At this point, the one remaining thing that Redux-ORM really handles that RTK doesn't is that specifically relational behavior - ie, given a `Post`, look up all its `Comment`s by an array of IDs or something. You can do a decent amount of that with selectors, but yeah, Redux-ORM's API here is nicer.

We haven't tried to provide any of that ourselves because this becomes a much more complicated and app-specific topic. But, I'm always open to suggestions for APIs and use cases. If you have ideas for things that we should consider adding to RTK, please do file an issue so we can discuss details!

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/api/createEntityAdapter