MobX vs React: What are the differences?
Developers describe MobX as "Simple, scalable state management". MobX is a battle tested library that makes state management simple and scalable by transparently applying functional reactive programming (TFRP). React and MobX together are a powerful combination. React renders the application state by providing mechanisms to translate it into a tree of renderable components. MobX provides the mechanism to store and update the application state that React then uses. On the other hand, React is detailed as "A JavaScript library for building user interfaces". Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
MobX belongs to "State Management Library" category of the tech stack, while React can be primarily classified under "Javascript UI Libraries".
"It's just stupidly simple, yet so magical" is the top reason why over 16 developers like MobX, while over 671 developers mention "Components" as the leading cause for choosing React.
MobX and React are both open source tools. It seems that React with 131K GitHub stars and 24.2K forks on GitHub has more adoption than MobX with 19.6K GitHub stars and 1.21K GitHub forks.
Uber Technologies, Facebook, and Instagram are some of the popular companies that use React, whereas MobX is used by Udemy, ScreenAware, and Swat.io. React has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3180 company stacks & 2969 developers stacks; compared to MobX, which is listed in 51 company stacks and 32 developer stacks.