The inherent architecture of this combination of libraries it's built upon is also used in many other libraries eg. vdux and choo . Those two seem to be less demanding on boilerplate and provide fewer abstractions with basically the same patterns. I've personally started using choo since it does just what i need for my prototypes. I have yet to use it for a large scale application, but I'm really happy with what it does with 5 kb so far.