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State of React 2025

Libraries

Libraries Experience & Sentiment

TanStack Query garnered the most positive opinions overall, with TanStack Start not too far behind after Zustand, shadcn/ui, and create-vite.

And echoing recent results from the State of JavaScript survey, Next.js was the most commented-on library here as well.

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Baseline Status:

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Back-End
Create React App
86.9%
11.7%
2,709
02
Data Loading
Axios
83.4%
13.4%
2,723
03
Back-End
Next.js
80%
19.1%
2,714
04
State Management
Redux
74.5%
23.5%
2,755
05
Back-End
React Router
72.2%
24.8%
2,706
06
Data Loading
TanStack Query
68.1%
23.7%
8.1%
2,727
07
Component Libraries
MUI
57.2%
34.3%
7.8%
2,772
08
Component Libraries
shadcn/ui
56.1%
32.7%
10.7%
2,768
09
State Management
Redux Toolkit
54%
33.8%
11.8%
2,741
10
Back-End
create-vite
53.8%
25.8%
20.2%
2,699

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:34%
“Positive” average:21%
“Negative” average:16%

Ratios over Time

shadcn/ui stands out as the project with the fastest rise in usage, going from 20% to 56% in two years.

Meanwhile, TanStack Start made big waves despite being a relatively new project, going from 55% to 81% awareness in just one year!

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Create React App
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Redux Toolkit
create-vite

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