A comparison with Redux

If we were to talk about state management in React and we didn't mention Redux, it would be a complete remiss. Redux is an extremely popular state management library and its popularity stems from the fact that it simplified the original Flux architecture that was proposed by Facebook. It got rid of certain actors in Flux, such as dispatchers, which resulted in combining all the stores into one, commonly referred to as the single state tree.

MobX has some conceptual similarities with Redux as far as the data flow is concerned, but that is also where the similarities end. The mechanism adopted by MobX is drastically different than the one taken by Redux. Let's have a brief overview of Redux before we get into a slightly deeper-level comparison.