# Pinia

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Pinia and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A simple, free state management library for Vue, recommended by people who find it easier to work with than Redux.

## Why people recommend it

- Simple state store for Vue (3 comments): "I completely rebuilt this sync engine + orm with relations, lazy loading etc, using Vue + Pinia" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437889)) "combined with a simple store like Pinia it's just really fun to work with" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275999)) "Move from Vuex to Pinia was also 50/50." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277335))
- Simpler than Redux-style stores (2 comments): "combined with a simple store like Pinia it's just really fun to work with" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275999)) "state management better (Pinia, closer to MobX than Redux)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45855768))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [TanStack Query](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tanstack-query.md): 19 recommend
- [Redux](https://hackerapproved.com/p/redux.md): 15 recommend
- [Zustand](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zustand.md): 12 recommend
- [XState](https://hackerapproved.com/p/xstate.md): 12 recommend
- [MobX](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mobx.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

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