Option to push events into all atoms / or alternative

I’m rewriting my app from redux to recoil, it’s going great, but I did have a global ‘RESET’ action for example when I logout. I want some reducers to reset themselves. I think I can fix this with more explicit approach of using useResetRecoilState() in my logout button but I was wondering if you did have an alternative for that use-case.

import { atom } from 'recoil'

export const answeredFlows = atom({
  key: 'answeredFlows',
  default: [],
  globalEvents: (event: { type: string }) => {
    if (event.type === 'LOGOUT') {
      return []
    }
  },
})

I guess you don’t want to recreate Redux but sometimes it would be cool to pass an event to all atoms.

[davidmccabe]

Thanks for your interest Richard!

As you mentioned, you can delete the value of an atom using useResetRecoilState.

If you want a reducer-style interface to atoms, you can create a hook that exposes such an interface and export that from the module instead of the atom itself.

[RichardLindhout]

Yeah I did have the same use case so I did create https://github.com/web-ridge/react-ridge-state since I don’t have the use-case for recoil yet and needed my state globally too