Fire-side chat on Recoil with David McCabe
summary
Explains concrete Recoil internals: how dynamic-selector dependencies work, why async selectors needed a rewrite, and how a persistent map (the hash-array-map-3 package) speeds copies so Recoil handles thousands or tens of thousands of atoms. Mentions current SSR support, a planned per-atom garbage-collection API for unloading dynamic atoms, and a separate recoil devtools that visualizes selector evaluation and state history — good if scaling, async state, or debugging selector hot spots matter.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:03Recoil status
- 5:37Recoil improvements
- 9:16Recoil selectors
- 13:10Persistent Data Structures
- 14:50Context Providers vs Recoil
- 16:07ServerSide Rendering Support
- 17:24Deleting Atoms
- 18:54Where can I use Recoil
- 21:16Async selectors
- 22:35React API
- 25:36Recoil in React Native
- 26:18Recoil in Skype
- 28:09Recoil website
- 28:46Recoil on production
- 30:13Recoil for beginners
- 31:43Recoil devtools
- 32:40Outro
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