Why Rematch?
Rematch was created in 2017 by Shawn McKay and Blair Bodnar, a pair of Canadian programmers who thought that Redux should be simpler and easier to use.
As McKay said in several publications, Rematch is a wrapper around Redux that provides a simpler API, without losing any of the configurability that Redux offers.
We saw in the previous chapter that Redux has a steep learning curve compared to a simple component local state because it includes so much new terminology and so many features that don't exist in other development suites.
As regards Redux, we can use this formula to easily understand why an abstraction layer is necessary:
Figure 2.1 – Formula to calculate the quality of our API for managing state
time_saved represents the time you may have spent developing your own state management solution, while time_invested is the hours invested in reading documentation, watching tutorials, and researching unfamiliar terminologies...
