I find the tagline to be rather confusing. Why "for babies"?
Also, while this appears to be _inspired_ by Redux, it's definitely not the same as Redux. In particular, it has separate event emitters for each top-level key in the state instead of a single change event, no middleware, no store enhancers, etc.
Thanks for the feedback. The "for babies" part came out of a conversation with coworkers a while back, where people were complaining that Redux is too complicated. Ie. To add a property to the store, you also have to define an Action and a type for that Action, then add the type to your Actions sum or enum type, then define a case for one of your reducers, and finally use the property in your React component. I thought this could be simplified quite a bit for the 90% use case where an action maps directly to a property on the store.
Babydux is certainly a Redux. From the Readme:
> Babydux is like Redux, but reducers are already baked-in. Babydux automatically creates an action and a reducer for each key on your state, so you don't have to write tedious boilerplate. Babydux still emits Actions under the hood (which you can listen on to produce effects), but gives you an incredibly simple get/set API that covers most use cases.
There is an undocumented top-level emitter (`onAll`), but I'm not sure there is a use case for it where targeted emitters wouldn't be a better fit.
There is certainly middleware support (see https://github.com/bcherny/babydux#effects). Unlike Redux, middleware fires after the state has been updated, not before. The effect is to fold the concepts of middleware and subscriptions into one. I want to keep the API as simple as possible, but I could see a future where before-write middleware could be a good fit for simulating transactions and preventing writing bad state to the global store.
Also, while this appears to be _inspired_ by Redux, it's definitely not the same as Redux. In particular, it has separate event emitters for each top-level key in the state instead of a single change event, no middleware, no store enhancers, etc.