TanStack Store

Overview

TanStack Store is a lightweight, framework-agnostic reactive state management library with type-safe updates, derived computations, batched mutations, and effect management. It powers the core of TanStack libraries internally and can be used as a standalone state solution. Framework adapters are available for React, Vue, Solid, Angular, and Svelte.

Core primitives:

• Store — reactive container with setState, subscriptions, and lifecycle hooks
• Derived — lazily computed values that track Store/Derived dependencies
• Effect — side-effect runner triggered by dependency changes
• batch — groups multiple updates so subscribers fire once

When to use: Shared reactive state across components, derived/computed values from multiple stores, batched state updates, framework-agnostic state logic reusable across React/Vue/Solid/Angular/Svelte, lightweight alternative to Redux/Zustand/MobX.

When NOT to use: Server state and caching (TanStack Query), complex normalized state with middleware (Redux Toolkit), form state management (TanStack Form), simple component-local state (useState/useSignal).

Key characteristics: