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Life & fun · April 8, 2026

Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager

React is excellent at rendering UI. I built Snapstate because I wanted business logic to live somewhere else.

Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager launched on April 8, 2026 with 27 votes, #958 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

A class-based state manager for React that simplifies useEffect logic. Built to address complexity in functional component state handling, this tool is designed for React developers who prefer class-based patterns or want an alternative approach to managing side effects and state. The solution provides a structured way to organize state management without relying on hooks-based logic.

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TL;DR: I built Snapstate to move business logic out of React components and into plain TypeScript classes. The result: stores you can test without React, components that only render, and a cleaner boundary between UI and application logic. React is excellent at rendering UI. It's less convincing as the place where the rest of the app should live. Over time, a lot of React codebases drift into the same shape: data fetching in useEffect , business rules inside custom hooks, derived values spread across useMemo , and mutations hidden in event handlers. The app still works, but the boundaries get blurry. Logic that should be easy to test or reuse ends up coupled to render timing, hook rules,…from thales.me

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