How MobX is used
MobX joined the catalog on its public numbers (2,018,950 downloads a week on npm and 28,214 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 15 public GitHub projects of our scan, 4 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Zustand (361 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Prettier (80.0%), React (80.0%), ESLint (80.0%).
MobX popularity over time
Gid Score 56: downloads 70, use in agent projects 23, GitHub stars 67, downloads trend 55 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with MobX
| Prettier | 80.0% of MobX projects · 3.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| React | 80.0% of MobX projects · 2.5× more than average |
| ESLint | 80.0% of MobX projects · 2.2× more than average |
| lint-staged | 40.0% of MobX projects · 5.1× more than average |
| Lodash | 40.0% of MobX projects · 22.2× more than average |
| Babel (JavaScript) | 40.0% of MobX projects · 10.7× more than average |
| Testing Library | 40.0% of MobX projects · 4.0× more than average |
| TypeScript | 93.3% of MobX projects · 1.7× more than average |
How MobX is funded
Open Collective: mobx
| Received, last 12 months | $4,115 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $5,453 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $25,013 |
| Raised since the start | $97,794 · $72,781 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $345 · $364 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -33% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 32 |
Top company backers all time, 98 companies in total
| Guilded | $7,500 since Apr 2018 |
|---|---|
| Anonymous | $5,500 since May 2021 |
| Parallax | $5,000 since Oct 2021 |
| One Beyond | $4,400 since Aug 2019 |
| Frontend Masters | $4,050 since Dec 2018 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Nov 2016. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund MobX
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install mobx |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (13), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | LeagueAkari/LeagueAkari, EDSpower/vite-react-ts-app, sporadic-labs/the-atomic-incident |
Alternatives to MobX
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside MobX are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zustand npm Lightweight state management for React with minimal boilerplate. |
84 | 361 (7.5%) | 37.7M | 58.8K | MIT |
| React Redux npm Official React bindings for Redux state management with hooks. |
72 | 42 (0.9%) | 23.7M | 23.4K | MIT |
| Redux Toolkit npm Official Redux library with built-in best practices and reduced boilerplate for state management. |
68 | 39 (0.8%) | 19.9M | 11.2K | MIT |
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