I don't want to be a mood-killer, but no, storeon is still just an EventEmitter. With sugar for caching etc, but still EventEmitter. Application needs full-fledged "data-flow language" . That's not about "bounches of unnecessary tools", that's about solid scalable architecture. You'd probably suffer badly if you'll try to implement some of my projects (e.g. FrameNinja) with just storeon