One day I was thinking how to compare those two and the following came to mind.
This section is highly influenced by Preethi Kasireddy's talk at React Conf 2017. Please spend half an hour and watch it. You can find the talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76FRrbY18Bs.
MobX is like system of roads for cars. You create a road map and let people drive. Some will cause accidents, some will drive carefully. Some roads may be limited to one-way to restrict traffic a little, or even shaped in a certain way to allow easier reasoning about the car flow, as in Manhattan. Redux, on the other hand, is like a train. Only one train can move on a track at a time. If there are a few at the same moment and something is holding up the one in front, every other train waits behind, just like in a subway station. Sometimes trains need to transfer people as far as the...
