Create Your Own Redux: Build a Custom State Management in React

Managing state effectively is key to building scalable and maintainable frontend applications. While popular libraries like Redux, Zustand, Recoil and MobX offer powerful solutions, there are times when you want something custom – whether you’re trying to simplify logic or just understand how things really work under the hood.

In this blog, I’ll walk you through how you can build your own state management system, called Pulse Store, or you can give any name to it. It’s a Redux-inspired, fully working solution built with plain JavaScript (ES6+).

The goal here isn’t just to replace Redux – it’s to learn how such a tool functions behind the scenes. If you’ve ever wondered how state flows in Redux, how actions trigger updates, or how reducers are managed, then Pulse Store is a great way to explore all of that in a clean, understandable way.

So, whether you’re ...