# salesforce/akita

🚀 State Management Tailored-Made for JS Applications

Repository: https://github.com/salesforce/akita
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/akita
Homepage: https://salesforce.github.io/akita/
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: angular, state-management, redux, store, oop, rxjs, react, vue, javascript, typescript
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-05-01T17:28:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 19, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3005, "days_push": 489, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3666, forks 338 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:13.390842+00:00)

## What it is
Akita is a reactive state management library for JavaScript applications, built on RxJS, combining Flux-style multiple stores with Redux-style immutable updates in an object-oriented Observable Data Store model. It works with Angular, React, Vue, Web Components, and vanilla JS, but is no longer maintained in favor of its successor Elf.

## Use cases
- manage application state in angular apps
- redux alternative with less boilerplate
- reactive state management with rxjs observables
- entity stores for collections of items
- share state across react or vue components
- query and select state slices reactively

## When to choose
- you are maintaining an existing codebase already built on Akita
- you want an OOP-flavored, opinionated state pattern with stores and queries
- your team prefers RxJS-based observable data stores over functional reducers

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the library is explicitly unmaintained and its authors recommend Elf
- you want long-term community support, updates, or security patches
- you prefer functional programming patterns like Redux or Zustand

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: state-management
- domain: frontend, web-development
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: rxjs, observable-store, angular, react, vue, flux, redux-alternative, typescript, elf-successor, nodejs

## Member repositories
- salesforce/akita (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:13.390842+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:31:32.916776+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/salesforce/akita (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:13.390842+00:00, sha d74c257c265f)
  - homepage: https://salesforce.github.io/akita/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:25:50.492481+00:00, sha 4a2dfe46987c)
  - site_page: https://opensource.salesforce.com/akita/docs/store (fetched 2026-08-29T09:25:50.501449+00:00, sha 1440c5096a10)
  - site_page: https://opensource.salesforce.com/akita/docs/query (fetched 2026-08-29T09:25:50.503350+00:00, sha e61bcea537fb)
  - site_page: https://opensource.salesforce.com/akita/docs/best-practices (fetched 2026-08-29T09:25:50.505115+00:00, sha edd41c922319)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.