# tanstack-store

A skill covering TanStack Store: a framework-agnostic reactive store with adapters for React, Vue, Solid, Angular and Svelte. Useful when your agent writes state with @tanstack/store.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1800 installs · ★ 36
- Author: tanstack-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/tanstack-store/skills/tanstack-store/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-01-31
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/tanstack-store

## What it does

The skill hands your agent a reference for the TanStack Store API. It covers `Store` for state, `Derived` for computed values, `Effect` for side effects and `batch` for atomic updates. State changes go through `setState` with an updater function, and `subscribe` returns an unsubscribe function.

A separate section maps the framework adapters. React uses `useStore(store, selector?, equalityFn?)` from `@tanstack/react-store`; Vue, Solid, Angular and Svelte each get their own package and hook. There is also a note on `shallow` for selectors that return objects or arrays — skip it and the component re-renders on every state change, because the object reference is new each time.

One thing that trips people up: `Derived` and `Effect` only work after you call `mount()`. That call returns the unmount function, which in React usually goes back out of `useEffect`. The source text is truncated, so the full list of practices may go beyond what is shown.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills --skill tanstack-store -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/tanstack-store/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/tanstack-store/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills --skill tanstack-store -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/tanstack-store/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills --skill tanstack-store -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/tanstack-store/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills tanstack-store
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/tanstack-store/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills --skill tanstack-store -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills --path plugins/tanstack-store/skills/tanstack-store
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/tanstack-store/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills --skill tanstack-store -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/tanstack-store/skills/tanstack-store/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- set up shared state without Redux boilerplate
- compute a value from two stores
- group several updates into one subscriber notification
- subscribe a React component to part of the state with a selector
- attach a side effect that clears its own timer

## Example prompts
- Build a counter store with `@tanstack/store` and wire it into React with `useStore`
- Add a `Derived` that filters the list by the search string, and call `mount()` on it
- Wrap three store updates in `batch` so subscribers fire once

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: tanstack-store
description: Framework-agnostic, immutable reactive data store with framework adapters for React, Vue, Solid, Angular, and Svelte.
---


## Overview

TanStack Store is a lightweight reactive store (signals-like) that powers the internals of TanStack libraries. It provides `Store` for state, `Derived` for computed values, `Effect` for side effects, and `batch` for atomic updates. Framework adapters provide reactive hooks.

**Core:** `@tanstack/store`
**React:** `@tanstack/react-store`

## Installation

```bash
npm install @tanstack/store @tanstack/react-store
```

## Store

### Creating a Store

```typescript
import { Store } from '@tanstack/store'

const countStore = new Store(0)

const userStore = new Store<{ name: string; email: string }>({
  name: 'Alice',
  email: 'alice@example.com',
})
```

### Updating State

```typescript
// Function updater (immutable update)
countStore.setState((prev) => prev + 1)

userStore.setState((prev) => ({ ...prev, name: 'Bob' }))
```

### Subscribing to Changes

```typescript
const unsub = countStore.subscribe(() => {
  console.log('Count:', countStore.state)
})

// Cleanup
unsub()
```

### Store Options

```typescript
const store = new Store(initialState, {
  // Custom update function
  updateFn: (prevValue) => (updater) => {
    return updater(prevValue) // custom logic
  },
  // Callback on subscribe
  onSubscribe: (listener, store) => {
    console.log('New subscriber')
    return () => console.log('Unsubscribed')
  },
  // Callback on every update
  onUpdate: () => {
    console.log('State updated:', store.state)
  },
})
```

### Store Properties

```typescript
store.state      // Current state
store.prevState  // Previous state
store.listeners  // Set of listener callbacks
```

## Derived (Computed Values)

```typescript
import { Store, Derived } from '@tanstack/store'

const count = new Store(5)
const multiplier = new Store(2)

const doubled = new Derived({
  deps: [count, multiplier],
  fn: ({ currDepVals }) => currDepVals[0] * currDepVals[1],
})

// MUST mount to activate
const unmount = doubled.mount()

console.log(doubled.state) // 10

count.setState(() => 10)
console.log(doubled.state) // 20

// Cleanup
unmount()
```

### Derived with Previous Value

```typescript
const accumulated = new Derived({
  deps: [count],
  fn: ({ prevVal, currDepVals }) => {
    return currDepVals[0] + (prevVal ?? 0)
  },
})
```

### Chaining Derived

```typescript
const filtered = new Derived({
  deps: [dataStore, filterStore],
````
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