Introduction

Nano Kit is a lightweight, modular, and performant state management ecosystem for building modern web applications. Each library is designed to be small and tree-shakeable, while still offering rich DX and useful features.

import { signal, mountable, onMount, computed, effect } from '@nano_kit/store'

/* Create independent mountable atomic store */
const $count = mountable(signal(1))

/* Mountable: Run logic only when store has listeners */
onMount($count, () => {
  console.log('Mounted: Store is active')
  /* e.g., open websocket, start timer, etc. */

  return () => {
    console.log('Unmounted: Store is idle')
    /* e.g., close websocket, stop timer */
  }
})

/* Derive state (computed values are lazy & cached) */
const $double = computed(() => $count() * 2)

/* React to changes (triggers onMount) */
const unsub = effect(() => {
  console.log(`Count: ${$count()}, Double: ${$double()}`)
})

/* Update triggers granular propagation */
$count(2)

/* Cleanup: removes listener and triggers onMount destructor */
unsub()

Packages

Core Ecosystem

Package	Description
@nano_kit/store	Signals-based state management library.
@nano_kit/query	Data fetching and caching library, built on @nano_kit/store.
@nano_kit/router	Routing library, built on @nano_kit/store.
@nano_kit/ssr	Base package for building framework-specific SSR adapters.

Framework Adapters

Adapter	Description
@nano_kit/react	React integration for @nano_kit/store.
@nano_kit/react-router	React integration for @nano_kit/router.
@nano_kit/react-ssr	React SSR adapter for @nano_kit/ssr.
@nano_kit/preact	Preact integration for @nano_kit/store.
@nano_kit/preact-router	Preact integration for @nano_kit/router.
@nano_kit/preact-ssr	Preact SSR adapter for @nano_kit/ssr.
@nano_kit/svelte	Svelte integration for @nano_kit/store.
@nano_kit/svelte-router	Svelte integration for @nano_kit/router.
@nano_kit/svelte-ssr	Svelte SSR adapter for @nano_kit/ssr.
@nano_kit/svelte-kit	SvelteKit integration for stores, router, and SSR.
@nano_kit/next-router	Next.js integration for @nano_kit/router.

Motivation

Nano Kit is built on the philosophy of Nano Stores and extends its core ideas:

• Atomicity: Use independent, atomic stores for granular updates.
• Mountable stores: Initialize resources only when the store is in use (on first listener) and clean up automatically.
• Shift logic out of components: Move business logic to the store level.
• Minimal footprint: Maintain a tiny core size that is fully tree-shakeable.

However, Nano Stores has some limitations:

• Performance overhead
• Suboptimal Developer Experience (DX)
• Issues with SSR support

Nano Kit aims to fix these issues while keeping the same principles.

Unified Architecture

Adopting an ecosystem-first architecture provides a much smoother experience for developers than a stack of independent libraries. Because every part of the ecosystem is built on the same foundation, you get a consistent “feel” across the entire library. This shared core allows the tools to reuse internal logic, which drastically reduces your final bundle size.

Compare this to a standard setup like React Router + Redux + React Query. While these are great tools, they are effectively strangers to each other. They each have their own way of doing things and their own internal weight, often leading to duplicated code. Consequently, developers are forced to manually synchronize state and data between these independent tools inside the UI components, often resulting in bloated “glue code”.

Nano Kit takes a different approach. Because the router, data fetching, and state management layer are engineered to work together from day one, they integrate deeply at the store level. This removes the need for messy “glue code” in your components and keeps your application logic clean, unified, and efficient. It makes the store layer portable and independent, allowing you to easily swap the UI layer.

import { browserNavigation, searchParams, searchParam } from '@nano_kit/router'
import { client, queryKey } from '@nano_kit/query'
import { effect } from '@nano_kit/store'
import { useSignal } from '@nano_kit/react'

/* Router */
const [$location, navigation] = browserNavigation({ /* routes */ })
const $searchParams = searchParams($location)
const $page = searchParam($searchParams, 'page', v => (v ? Number(v) : 1))

/* Query */
const { query } = client()
const [
  $episodes,
  $episodesError,
  $episodesLoading
] = query(queryKey('episodes'), [$page], async (page) => {
  /* Fetcher automatically receives the current page */
  return fetch(`/api/episodes?page=${page}`).then(r => r.json())
})

/* Logic is fully decoupled from UI components */
effect(() => {
  console.log('Current page:', $page())
  console.log('Episodes:', $episodes())
})

/* UI components remain pure and logic-free. Example (React): */
function MyComponent() {
  const page = useSignal($page)
  const episodes = useSignal($episodes)

  /* ... */
}

/* Changing the URL updates $page signal and automatically triggers re-fetch */
navigation.push('/episodes?page=2')

Performance

To achieve high performance, Nano Kit uses the push-pull algorithm from alien-signals as the core of its reactivity system. A dedicated fork named “Agera” was created to support additional required features.

The benchmark results below show how @nano_kit/store (Agera) compares to other popular state management libraries.

Library	Latency avg (ns)	Latency med (ns)	Throughput avg (ops/s)	Throughput med (ops/s)	Samples
alien-signals	308.59 ± 1.78%	280.00 ± 0.00	3441332 ± 0.01%	3571429 ± 0	3240532
@nano_kit/store	320.68 ± 1.94%	290.00 ± 10.00	3309252 ± 0.01%	3448276 ± 107527	3118402
@preact/signals-core	338.61 ± 1.72%	310.00 ± 0.00	3199314 ± 0.01%	3225806 ± 0	2953273
svelte/store	465.27 ± 1.90%	390.00 ± 10.00	2407386 ± 0.02%	2564103 ± 67476	2149277
rxjs	494.07 ± 1.64%	440.00 ± 10.00	2171288 ± 0.02%	2272727 ± 52854	2023990
zustand, subscribeWithSelector	949.00 ± 11.36%	540.00 ± 10.00	1759331 ± 0.03%	1851852 ± 34941	1061940
nanostores	1301.5 ± 3.82%	1010.0 ± 30.00	922683 ± 0.04%	990099 ± 26959	768344
mobx	3523.9 ± 1.97%	3170.0 ± 40.00	308802 ± 0.03%	315457 ± 3858	283777
valtio	8159.3 ± 42.88%	4160.0 ± 270.00	224079 ± 0.10%	240385 ± 16186	136709
jotai	12324 ± 18.25%	6780.0 ± 260.00	140186 ± 0.11%	147493 ± 5760	81699
effector	26075 ± 12.65%	15950 ± 310.00	60217 ± 0.16%	62696 ± 1495	38808
@reatom/core	76343 ± 18.57%	50400 ± 7410.0	19224 ± 0.38%	19841 ± 2952	13108

Median of 11 rounds, each library measured in a fresh Node.js process in shuffled order. Run on AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G with Node.js v24.14.1.

Bundle Sizes

Weather 🌤️

Comparison of bundle sizes for various implementations of the weather example:

Stack	Raw Size	Gzipped Size
React + Nano Stores	206.77 kB	65.90 kB
React + Nano Kit	211.32 kB	67.25 kB
React + Nano Kit + DI	212.49 kB	67.60 kB
React + Reatom	228.16 kB	73.00 kB
React + TanStack Query	232.63 kB	72.42 kB

Bundled with Vite 8

Rick and Morty 🛸

Comparison of frontend bundle sizes for various SSR implementations of the rick-and-morty example:

Stack	Raw Size	Gzipped Size	Raw Size /characters page
React + Nano Kit SSR	236.62 kB	78.01 kB	223.87 kB
React + TanStack Start	374.95 kB	117.43 kB	364.59 kB
Next.js Pages Router + Nano Kit	509.29 kB	161.25 kB	367.60 kB
Next.js App Router + Nano Kit	946.14 kB	292.69 kB	470.21 kB

Bundled with Vite 8 / Next.js 16