Unpopular opinion: you don't need a state management library for 80% of React apps. Server state → TanStack…

Vivaan Patel

Frontend Engineer | React, Next.js, TypeScript | Obsessed with fast, accessible UIs

29 Sept 2026

Unpopular opinion: you don't need a state management library for 80% of React apps. Server state → TanStack Query. UI state → useState/useReducer. Shared UI state → context, sparingly. I've deleted Redux from two codebases this year and nobody missed it.

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Unpopular opinion: you don't need a state management library for 80% of React apps. Server state → TanStack…

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