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State management is not limited to complex applications and transitioning to a store offers significant benefits. Pinia is a centralized state management solution compatible with Vue 2 and Vue 3, providing advanced devtools support and extensibility with plugins. The core API of Pinia is similar to Vuex, but with a less verbose version of stores and powerful plugins. Pinia allows for easy state inspection, error handling, and testing. It is recommended to create one file per store for better organization and Pinia offers a more efficient performance compared to V-rex.

When we think about Vuex, Pinia, or stores in general we often think about state management and the Flux patterns but not only do stores not always follow the Flux pattern, there is so much more about stores that make them worth using! Plugins, Devtools, server-side rendering, TypeScript integrations... Let's dive into everything beyond state management with Pinia with practical examples about plugins and Devtools to get the most out of your stores.

Everything Beyond State Management in Stores with Pinia

Eduardo San Martin Morote

Vue.js London 2023

Pinnia is a lighter, more modular state management solution for Vue apps, offering consistent patterns, TypeScript support, and an intuitive developer experience. PINIA encourages splitting state into manageable domains, improving code splitting, type inferences, team collaboration, and debugging clarity. Pinia provides flexibility in accessing and mutating state, with different approaches for option and setup stores. It also offers features like patch, reset, and onAction methods. Vue Mastery offers comprehensive Pinnia courses and resources for fast learning.

With Vue's new-and-improved state management library, Pinia, we gain a much more modular tool. While being more flexible, leaner, and lacking the Mutations of Vuex, Pinia presents us with more opportunities to be creative, for better or worse, with our app architecture and how state management is conducted and organized within it.This talk explores some @posva-approved best practices and architectural design patterns to consider when using Pinia in production.

Proven Pinia Patterns

Adam Jahr

Pinia is the officially recognized state management library for Vue.js, with a simpler API than VueX and TypeScript support. Migrating to Pinia involves creating a root store, defining stores, and using store2refs or the exported use store in components. Testing real store behavior requires creating a Pinia instance, while component testing involves importing useStore and using mapState and mapAction from vigname. Migrating tests involves creating a local view and using the Pinia plugin, and Vuex and Pinia can coexist but should be migrated module by module. Store persistence can be achieved through subscribing to store changes or using a watcher.

Are you losing your mind trying to convert your Vuex store to Pinia? Here is a walkthrough on how to migrate store definitions and tests, easily and without suffering.

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