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State management in a GraphQL era

Can GraphQL coexist with the other state management frameworks? What are the pros and cons of each combination?

Kristijan Ristovski at dotJS 2017

External state management frameworks like Redux and MobX definitely helped with the problem of state-management, especially when the data is fetched from a REST endpoint. But now that we're using GraphQL to take care of the data part, is an external state-management library even needed? Can GraphQL coexist with the other state management frameworks? What are the pros and cons of each combination?