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State of React 2024

Component Libraries

The building blocks of your front-end

Component Libraries Ratios Over Time

While MUI maintains in top rank in terms of usage, shadcn/ui is making huge gains, doubling from 20% to 42% in a year; as well as topping the positivity chart with 80%!

Ant Design
Chakra UI
Headless UI
MUI
Radix
React Bootstrap
shadcn/ui
React Aria
Mantine

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What other component libraries have you used?
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We asked members of the React community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2024 Pick: "Mind the Gap" – Ryan Florence's talk at Big Sky Dev Con 2024

Ryan masterfully shows how React's new "use server" and "use client" directives let us build rich features on both sides of the network, using the same unified paradigm. A must-watch for any React developer.
We asked members of the React community to share their “pick of the year”

Sam Selikoff

Videos for frontend developers on Build UI and YouTube, co-host of the Frontend First podcast

Animation

Motion (previously known as Framer Motion) takes a well-deserved first place to celebrate its recent rebranding!

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Which animation libraries have you used?

Data Visualization

Chart.js tops the rankings this year. By the way, did you know that all of this survey's chart are custom-built?

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Which data visualization and graphics libraries have you used?

Form Libraries

React Hook Form is by far the most common form library today. But with the growing popularity of the TanStack, er, stack, it'll be interesting to keep an eye on TanStack Forms in the future.

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Which libraries have you used to manage forms?

Form Patterns

Interestingly, a majority of developers is comfortable using both controlled and uncontrolled forms.

That being said, if you must pick only one then controlled form inputs seem like the way to go!

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Which form pattern do you usually prefer using?

CSS Tools & Libraries

Did Tailwind kill CSS-in-JS? Or did CSS itself simply catch up? In any case the days of getting fancy with CSS architecture seem to be over, as the top three spots are all taken by longstanding CSS tools.

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Which libraries or frameworks have you used to style your React apps?

Component Pain Points

With the amount of pain caused by styling & customization issues, it's no wonder “headless” libraries such as Radix and React Aria have proven so popular.

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What pain points have you encountered related to working with components?
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