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State of React 2023

State Management

Libraries for managing application state

State Management Experience & Sentiment

Beyond useState, the state management solution with the highest positivity ratio is Zustand. And while Redux still boasts a large userbase, it isn't quite as beloved.

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99%
11,033
2

80.5%
19%
9,911
3

55.2%
31.9%
12.9%
9,887
4

28.4%
42.5%
29.1%
9,894
5

17.8%
58.1%
24.1%
9,885
6

13.2%
39.7%
47.1%
9,887
7

10.7%
38.8%
50.5%
9,850
8

10.7%
49.2%
40.1%
9,866

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.

Other State Management Libraries

What other libraries have you used to manage state in your apps?
0%
8%
15%
23%
30%
38%
1

183
2

98
3

86
4

43
5

32
6

Signals

32
7

31
8

30
9

25
10

24
11

Other Answers

289
0%
8%
15%
23%
30%
38%
% of question respondents
760
6%
We asked members of the React community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2023 Pick: Remotion

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State Management Pain Points

What pain points have you encountered related to state management?
Freeform
0%
13%
26%
39%
52%
65%
1

Redux issues

2

Excessive complexity

3

Excessive boilerplate

4

Global state management

5

Context API

Answers matching “Context API” 37
6

MobX issues

7

8

Configuration

9

Debugging

10

Performance

0%
13%
26%
39%
52%
65%
% of question respondents
568
4%

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