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Paul C. Ishaili
Paul C. Ishaili

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What are your Favourite Tools in React, and why?

Mine are:


  1. React Router DOM (V6) - For Page routing and views switching.

  2. React Hooks - UseState, UseContext, UseRef, forwardRef

  3. React Spring - For transitions and animations in React

  4. Styled Component - I enjoy the CSS-in-JS syntax, and styled-components aid to achieve this more.

  5. UUID - For generating unique ids in iterating arrays or objects


What are yours?

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Jesswin W Varghese • Edited
  1. Framer motion, easy React component animations
  2. Zustand, state management has never been this easy
  3. React query, easy server state management
  4. Emotionjs, styled components but better ans framework agnostic
  5. Storybook, really helpful to present your components
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Paul C. Ishaili

Great list, @lemokami. Do share your thoughts on them

👉 lists.forEach(item) => shareYourOpinion, 🙂

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Jesswin W Varghese

console.log("done")

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Paul C. Ishaili

--eslint -- '1 bug found!' -- line 4:42

😊

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hacker4world

React-query for managing data coming from a server

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Paul C. Ishaili

Very insightful @hacker4world . How well is your proficiency on this?

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Anish De

Radix UI, Headless UI, Next.js, Tailwind CSS (not React specific but it is awesome), some more small libraries here and there

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Paul C. Ishaili

Sight you, @danwalsh 👋

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Dan Walsh • Edited

Cheers, @mrpaulishaili! 👋

This is a great list, keen to check out React Spring and UUID when time permits!

My fav tools would have to be:

React specific:

  • Hooks—don't know how I dev'd without them before!
  • Context—because passing props down through the tree is painful

Non-React specific:

  • TailwindCSS—loving abstracting my UI components into reusable React components with atomic classes.
  • TypeScript—helping me write more robust, logical and error-free code
  • eslint—because I can't find all the errors on my own 😅
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Paul C. Ishaili

Wow! Well elaborative, professionally specific 🙂!

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Saif Aljanahi

Formik, Without any doubts!

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Paul C. Ishaili

Formik! Tell us more about Formik!

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Shiva Aryal

For me, React Hook Form is also an best alternative for form handling.
For more - react-hook-form.com/

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Saif Aljanahi

Nice

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Saif Aljanahi

Its Form Mangament Library, it will take care of all your inputfields and forms with ease, do validation out of the box!

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Paul C. Ishaili

Wow! I should definitely check that out! Thank you @1saifj

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flyingCrp

Ok... does anyone use only state and hooks without using any third-party libraries for state management in a commercial project?

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Paul C. Ishaili

Yes, possible @flyingcrp , third-party libraries however speed things up easier for developers

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flyingCrp

ok,In our application, all functions are independent, except for the global login status, and after hooks, I can't think of any reason to use a third-party library to manage the state , maybe the application type is different?
No need for deep props passing,No need for share lots of state ,in fact , sometime we can use context to resolve some special case

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Paul C. Ishaili

Wow! What a great list, @harshhhdev.

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Andrew Baisden

Too many to list but shout out to Storybook. A front-end design system for developers.

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Alexandr Rešetňak

React query for fetching the data ❤️ -> react-query.tanstack.com

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Paul C. Ishaili

Wow! Came across this just today and I was like 'what would this be for?'

Thank you @resetnak

WhatsYourFavouriteReactTools

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m0nm
  • framer motion: animations made easy
  • zustand: state management made easy
  • react icons Plus typescript: well because it's typescript