Important Conversations

Some of the conversations the author had with some of the important people are written below.

These conversations were documented in the chapter “Using MobX as a State Manager in a React Native App.”

Important conversation points

• We exchanged a few messages with Jamon Holmgren, who is the CTO of Infinite Red, one of the most renowned software houses specializing in React Native, and the maintainer of MobX-State-Tree (MST). He said he found out about MobX around 5 years ago when his teammates were looking for alternatives to Redux. After doing a trial project, they really liked it, and they’ve been using it ever since. It’s even integrated into Ignite, the React Native boilerplate by Infinite Red. Jamon says, “MST’s main advantage is that you get the central store feel of Redux without having to touch four or five different files for every change. You also get granular rerenders without having to write a single selector and a very natural JavaScript feel. Developers at Infinite Red used MST on apps with hundreds of screens and millions of daily active users with little issue, so it’s a proven state management system that works really well with React and React Native.” In cases where developers have to work with less structured data, over which they need more control, MobX could be the better solution over MST.