Akka vs Redux Observable

Overview

Akka

Stacks1.2K

Followers1.0K

Votes88

Redux Observable

Stacks105

Followers45

Votes0

Akka vs Redux Observable: What are the differences?

Developers describe Akka as "Build powerful concurrent & distributed applications more easily". Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM. On the other hand, Redux Observable is detailed as "A powerful middleware for Redux using RxJS". It allows developers to dispatch a function that returns an observable, promise or iterable of action(s). Compose and cancel async actions to create side effects and more.

Akka and Redux Observable are primarily classified as "Concurrency Frameworks" and "State Management Library" tools respectively.

Akka is an open source tool with 10.2K GitHub stars and 3.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Akka's open source repository on GitHub.

Asana, Rainist, and Contentsquare are some of the popular companies that use Akka, whereas Redux Observable is used by Webscope.io, NUU, and STRV. Akka has a broader approval, being mentioned in 102 company stacks & 301 developers stacks; compared to Redux Observable, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Akka	Redux Observable
Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.	It allows developers to dispatch a function that returns an observable, promise or iterable of action(s). Compose and cancel async actions to create side effects and more.
-	Redux async actions;Rest requests with Redux;ReactiveX standards
Statistics
Stacks 1.2K	Stacks 105
Followers 1.0K	Followers 45
Votes 88	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 32 Great concurrency model 17 Fast 12 Actor Library 10 Open source 7 Resilient Cons 3 Mixing futures with Akka tell is difficult 2 Closing of futures 2 No type safety 1 Very difficult to refactor 1 Typed actors still not stable	No community feedback yet

What are some alternatives to Akka, Redux Observable?

Redux

It helps you write applications that behave consistently, run in different environments (client, server, and native), and are easy to test. t provides a great experience, such as live code editing combined with a time traveling debugger.

MobX

MobX is a battle tested library that makes state management simple and scalable by transparently applying functional reactive programming (TFRP). React and MobX together are a powerful combination. React renders the application state by providing mechanisms to translate it into a tree of renderable components. MobX provides the mechanism to store and update the application state that React then uses.

Orleans

Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was created by Microsoft Research and designed for use in the cloud.

Zustand

Small, fast and scaleable bearbones state-management solution. Has a comfy api based on hooks, that isn't boilerplatey or opinionated, but still just enough to be explicit and flux-like.

Effector

It is an effective multi-store state manager for Javascript apps, that allows you to manage data in complex applications.

RxJS

RxJS is a library for reactive programming using Observables, to make it easier to compose asynchronous or callback-based code. This project is a rewrite of Reactive-Extensions/RxJS with better performance, better modularity, better debuggable call stacks, while staying mostly backwards compatible, with some breaking changes that reduce the API surface.

Netty

Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

Finagle

Finagle is an extensible RPC system for the JVM, used to construct high-concurrency servers. Finagle implements uniform client and server APIs for several protocols, and is designed for high performance and concurrency.

redux-saga

An alternative side effect model for Redux apps

vuex

Vuex is a state management pattern + library for Vue.js applications. It serves as a centralized store for all the components in an application, with rules ensuring that the state can only be mutated in a predictable fashion. It also integrates with Vue's official devtools extension to provide advanced features such as zero-config time-travel debugging and state snapshot export / import.