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# 003 - Re-frame instead of Refx

Date: 2024-10-14

Status: accepted

## Context

[refx](https://github.com/ferdinand-beyer/refx) is a reimplementation of [re-frame](https://day8.github.io/re-frame/) without the dependency on [reagent](https://reagent-project.github.io/index.html). This is useful since it would take out some of the bundle size for the application.

Problems:

* Refx is still in alpha state so there might be problems within the implementation.
* There is little community around it and therefore not that many debug tools
* Incompatibility with existent tools from re-frame ([re-frisk](https://github.com/flexsurfer/re-frisk))

## Decision

Even if ShipClojure uses [UIx](https://github.com/pitch-io/uix) as a rendering agent instead of reagent, it will use re-frame and not refx due to bigger community support.

## Consequences

* The final bundle size will be bigger due to the added reagent dependency
* Debug and re-frame tools can be added easily to shipclojure


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