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State of React 2023

Features

We asked respondents about their thoughts on 28 distinct features, from omnipresent hooks such as useState, to more niche APIs like useDeferredValue. Be sure to try and sort by “sentiment”!

All Features

This chart recaps all of the survey's feature questions. The main bars represent a respondent's experience; and they are then further subdivided according to that respondent's sentiment. You can change the grouping to alternate between both.

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1

99%
11,033
2

98.7%
11,063
3

97.5%
12,637
4

93%
5.5%
11,029
5

90.6%
7.9%
11,073
6

86.1%
11.6%
11,033
7

85.4%
11.1%
3.5%
12,766
8

85.3%
11.6%
3.2%
11,090
9

73.4%
20.5%
6.1%
12,584
10

68.3%
19.5%
12.3%
12,632

Experience

  • Used it: Respondents who have used an item.
  • Heard of it: Respondents who have heard about an item, but haven't used it.
  • Never heard of it: Respondents who have never heard about an item.

Sentiment

  • Positive: Respondents who are interested in learning more about a technology; or are willing to use it again.
  • Neutral: Responents who did not indicate any sentiment about a technology.
  • Negative: Respondents who are not interested in learning more about a technology; or have used it and had a negative experience.

Main APIs Pain Points

What pain points have you encountered related to the APIs mentioned above?
Freeform

Among the most common React APIs, forwardRef was by far the one generating the most pain for developers, with memo a close second. Thankfully the React team is in the process of rolling out better alternatives to both.

0%
13%
25%
38%
50%
63%
1

2

3

Context API

Answers matching “Context API” 331
4

5

Excessive complexity

6

7

State management

8

Performance

9

Double rendering

10

11

Other Answers

Answers matching “Other Answers” 986
0%
13%
25%
38%
50%
63%
% of question respondents
1,566
12%
We asked members of the React community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2023 Pick: Zustand

Simple, elegant, extensible state management that "just works" (tm). Nowadays, you might not need state management, but if you do, Zustand is a great place to start.
We asked members of the React community to share their “pick of the year”

Jack Herrington

Principal Engineer and YouTuber

Hooks Pain Points

What pain points have you encountered with hooks?
Freeform

Unsurpringly, useEffect and useCallback were cited as the most problematice React hooks, in large part due to the management of dependency arrays.

0%
14%
27%
41%
55%
68%
1

2

Dependency Arrays

3

4

5

State management

6

Excessive complexity

7

8

9

Excessive rerendering

10

11

Other Answers

Answers matching “Other Answers” 771
0%
14%
27%
41%
55%
68%
% of question respondents
1,131
9%

New APIs Pain Points

What pain points have you encountered related to new APIs?
Freeform

While React's ability to keep evolving and stay relevant over time is one of its best assets, it also comes at a cost and new APIs such as Server Components can definitely be tough to adopt.

0%
18%
37%
55%
73%
92%
1

2

Excessive complexity

3

Next.js issues

4

5

form_issues

6

7

8

9

Lack of documentation

10

11

Other Answers

Answers matching “Other Answers” 394
0%
18%
37%
55%
73%
92%
% of question respondents
429
3%

Reading List

30% of respondents added at least one item to their reading list while taking the survey in order to learn more about them later. Here is a breakdown of their picks.

0%
9%
19%
28%
37%
46%
1

1,777
2

1,720
3

1,591
4

1,387
5

1,381
6

1,279
7

1,256
8

1,238
9

1,231
10

1,098
0%
9%
19%
28%
37%
46%
% of question respondents
How many time each item was added to respondent's Reading List, a feature that lets people learn more about specific topics as they take the survey.
3,840
30%

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