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State of React 2023

Back-End & Infrastructure

Bundling & serving your app

Meta-Frameworks Experience & Sentiment

While you'll certainly have no trouble finding people complaining about Next.js, it still managed to top the positivity rankings for meta-frameworks, followed by Remix and Astro.

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1

91.7%
7.7%
9,734
2

76.3%
23.3%
9,730
3

33.3%
60.3%
6.4%
9,695
4

18.8%
59.2%
22%
9,701
5

17.4%
71.4%
11.3%
9,711
6

32.8%
65%
9,674

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.
“Used” average:40%
“Positive” average:25%
“Negative” average:21%

Other Meta-Frameworks

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1

46
2

43
3

39
4

33
5

23
6

20
7

19
8

19
9

16
10

11
11

Other Answers

159
0%
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80%
100%
% of question respondents
339
3%

Build Tools

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100%
1

8,509
2

7,836
3

4,974
4

3,990
5

2,935
6

2,774
7

2,762
8

933
9

10

0%
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40%
60%
80%
100%
% of question respondents
9,598
74%
Which build tools and bundlers have you used?

Hosting Services

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1

Vercel

5,475
2

AWS

4,923
3

GitHub Pages

3,916
4

Netlify

3,836
5

Heroku

2,758
6

Azure

1,789
7

Cloudflare

1,745
8

Digital Ocean

1,688
9

Google Cloud

1,474
10

Fly.io

725
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100%
% of question respondents
9,310
72%
Which of these services have you used to host your React apps?
We asked members of the React community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2023 Pick: Pigment CSS

The Material UI team is building a next-gen CSS-in-JS library that pulls the styled API into the React Server Components era. There’s no shortage of CSS-in-JS tools out there, but this one checks all of the boxes for me.
We asked members of the React community to share their “pick of the year”

Josh W. Comeau

Software engineer and educator. Creator of The Joy of React

Other Services

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1

Firebase

4,281
2

3,398
3

Sentry

3,177
4

Redis

2,557
5

Supabase

1,971
6

PlanetScale

1,202
7

Upstash

471
8

9

10

Datadog

0%
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40%
60%
80%
100%
% of question respondents
8,532
66%
What other services have you used with your React apps?

Back-end Languages

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100%
1

6,958
2

6,305
3

2,341
4

1,926
5

1,673
6

1,603
7

8

861
9

586
10

247
0%
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40%
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80%
100%
% of question respondents
9,268
71%
Which language(s) are your back-end apps written in?

Back-End Pain Points

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100%
1

Configuration

2

Excessive complexity

3

End-to-end type safety

4

Next.js issues

5

Create React App issues

6

Deployment

7

Security

8

Other Answers

Answers matching “Other Answers” 291
0%
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40%
60%
80%
100%
% of question respondents
275
2%
What pain points have you encountered related to back-end and infrastructure?
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