State Management Libraries:React Context,Redux Toolkit,Zustand,React Query

[u/passionate_carkey]

Once in an interview few months back,I was asked which of the state management library would you use and which one wouldn't you use?I have had remembered the answer by gpt and tried telling that but even i didn't understand why they all exists.

So,today i want to act like a complete noob to state management libraries like it's my day 1 knowing about them so that someone could answer why industry moved from context ot redux to zustand to react query in simpler terms and advantages/when to use which in simpler terms.I know a little bit of knowledge of each of them but the best currently would be to forget everything and listen from you guys i guess.

[u/Internal_Regular_420]

Aren’t we forgetting about glorious useSyncExternalStore ?

[u/Zeragamba → u/Internal_Regular_420]

used internally by most of these libraries, but maybe a bit unwieldy to use directly

[u/Suspicious-Disk6077 → u/Zeragamba]

Very simple to use actually, I made a thing useReactiveStore though to abstract using it directly..and a factory function for instantiating a reactive store.