# Mador

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Mador and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Mador as a tiny, zero-dependency reactive state tool built on Proxies that works with plain nested objects. Critics mention a weird presentation and verbose syntax.

## Why people recommend it

- Tiny zero-dependency Proxy-based reactivity (3 comments): "Using Proxies for state management without the heavy overhead of large frameworks is really elegant." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591817)) "The result is Mador: a tiny ~80-line reactive state tuple" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591295)) "clean, zero-dependency reactivity" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590745))
- Smart idea that standardizes things (2 comments): "It’s a very smart idea though, I like it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591765)) "its a good way to standardize" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600230))

## What people warn about

- Weird presentation (1 comments): "Good learning experience but a very weird presentation." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591319))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [jQuery](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jquery.md): 111 recommend
- [Picknplace.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/picknplace-js.md): 58 recommend
- [Alpine.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/alpine-js.md): 50 recommend
- [Effect (TypeScript library)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/effect.md): 38 recommend
- [Video.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/video-js.md): 24 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Mador", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mador/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).