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Oscar Ceballos Contreras
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My Top React Libraries for 2025 πŸš€

The React ecosystem keeps growing stronger, with new tools and libraries enhancing how we build apps. Here's my curated list of must-have React libraries for 2025, categorized and ranked for their impact and utility in modern development. I've also added icons to make this more visually appealing! 🎨

1. 🧩 UI Components β†’ Shadcn UI
Shadcn UI combines the flexibility of TailwindCSS with pre-built, modern components. It allows you to craft sleek, accessible user interfaces without reinventing the wheel. A fantastic choice for maintaining design consistency.

2. 🎨 Styling β†’ TailwindCSS
TailwindCSS continues to dominate with its utility-first approach. Build modern, responsive UIs quickly and efficiently, with the added bonus of reducing custom CSS overhead. It’s fast, scalable, and developer-friendly.

3. 🌐 i18n β†’ react-i18next
Localization is a breeze with react-i18next. It provides tools for handling translations and supports complex scenarios like multiple namespaces and lazy loading. Perfect for global apps!

4. πŸ”’ Authentication β†’ Auth.js
For secure and flexible authentication, Auth.js is the top choice. It supports OAuth, JWT, and other advanced authentication flows, making it ideal for modern React applications.

5. πŸ› οΈ Global State β†’ Zustand
Zustand provides an elegant and lightweight alternative to Redux. With minimal boilerplate and powerful features, it’s a joy to use for managing global state.

6. πŸ“Š Data Fetching β†’ TanStack Query
TanStack Query is the ultimate tool for managing server state in React. It simplifies API requests, caching, and background refetching, allowing you to focus on building features.

7. πŸ“ˆ Charts β†’ Recharts
Data visualization is made easy with Recharts. Its chart components are highly customizable and built on D3.js, ensuring both performance and beautiful designs.

8. πŸ–ΌοΈ Icons β†’ react-icons
Icons can make or break your UI. With react-icons, you get access to popular icon packs like FontAwesome, Material Icons, and moreβ€”all wrapped in an easy-to-use interface.

9. πŸ‹οΈ Drag'n'Drop β†’ DnDKit
For implementing drag-and-drop functionality, DnDKit is unmatched. It’s accessible, flexible, and built with performance in mind, perfect for complex interactions.

10. πŸ”” Notifications β†’ Sonner
Sonner offers a lightweight and elegant solution for handling notifications. Its clean API and intuitive interface allow you to create polished alert systems effortlessly.

11. πŸŒ€ Animations β†’ Motion
Framer Motion is a powerhouse for adding smooth animations and gestures to your app. With a declarative API, it’s simple to create modern and dynamic user experiences.

12. πŸ“ Forms β†’ React Hook Form
React Hook Form is the go-to library for handling forms. Its hook-based approach minimizes re-renders, improves performance, and integrates well with popular UI libraries.

13. πŸ” Router β†’ Wouter
If you’re seeking a lightweight alternative to React Router, Wouter is an excellent pick. It’s simple, fast, and gets the job done without any unnecessary complexity.

14. πŸ§ͺ Testing β†’ Vitest + testing-library
Vitest is a fast and modern testing framework, while testing-library ensures your tests are accessible and user-centric. Together, they form the ultimate combo for testing React applications.

15. βœ… Data Validation β†’ Zod
Zod is a robust and developer-friendly library for schema validation. It allows you to define and validate data structures seamlessly, whether for forms, APIs, or TypeScript integration. Its flexibility and ease of use make it a top choice for ensuring data integrity in your React applications.

Conclusion
These libraries are indispensable tools for React developers in 2025. From crafting beautiful UIs to managing state, fetching data, and testing your app, this list has you covered. Which of these libraries do you use in your projects? Let me know your favorites or any new ones I should try! 🌟

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Hossein Yazdi β€’ β€’ Edited

Cool ones, thanks for the share! Here are some more great ones:

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Anon β€’

For auth, I wonder if it is more common to implement auth UI server side using python or go or whatever is on the backend rather than client side?

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Oscar Ceballos Contreras β€’

you can use next-auth in both sides server and client.

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Anon β€’ β€’ Edited

So are you also suggesting people serving node backend with express, nestjs, or other servers are using auth.js for that?

But that still makes me wonder about python, rails, and go, which will be just as common for react backends. In those cases, are people not using any react library and delegating to flask/django/rails/etc?

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Oscar Ceballos Contreras β€’

no, i mean you can use auth for a next app and you can implement in server actions or functions as well as client components, a separate backend must implement other strategy or adapt in some way to use the tokens or session from next-auth

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Ashish Kumar β€’

Cool list.

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Pull Review with Scott Beeker β€’

If you like building with React checkout StyleX
github.com/facebook/stylex

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Anon β€’

Thank you for calling out wouter!!

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Dwight β€’

Nice breakdown! But do people really prefer Wouter?

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Oscar Ceballos Contreras β€’

also react-router is very popular. it depends. IMO. i prefer wouter, i used to use it and i like it a lot.

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Anon β€’

What do you think about zustand vs using plain reducer + context?

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Oscar Ceballos Contreras β€’

I think Zustand is easier to use and understand

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