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State Management

Libraries for managing application state

State Management Ratios Over Time

Jotai
MobX
Recoil
Redux
Redux Toolkit
XState
Zustand
Effector

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2023
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2025
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Number of Items

Many respondents do not use state management tools at all, showing that first-party APIs like useState or useContext can often be sufficient to get the job done.
0%
7%
14%
20%
27%
34%
1
0
1,271
2
1
505
3
2
778
4
3
674
5
4
346
6
5
131
7
6
43
8
7
10
9
8
2
0%
7%
14%
20%
27%
34%
% of survey respondents

Other State Management Libraries

What other libraries have you used to manage state in your apps?
(freeform question)
Multiple
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40%
60%
80%
100%
2
-1
+4
4
+5
5
Other Answers
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% of question respondents

State Management Pain Points

What pain points have you encountered related to state management?
(freeform question)
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100%
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Excessive complexity
02
Excessive boilerplate
+1
03
Excessive Re-rendering
04
Global state management
+1
05
Configuration
+9
06
Synchronization issues
07
overuse_issues
+10
08
Excessive verbosity
09
10
Other Answers
0%
20%
40%
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% of question respondents

Recommended Resources

State Management at Scale in React & Next.js
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Microsoft

State Management at Scale in React & Next.js

Solve challenging state management problems and build applications that reliably scale with your team. Recognize anti-patterns and learn complex state optimizations with data normalization, form data, and reducers.
State Modeling in React with XState
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Microsoft

State Modeling in React with XState

XState helps you manage both local and global component states in React. In this course, we'll be learning to model state before we code using state machines and statecharts and then use those in our app to orchestrate complex app logic.
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