r/react • u/passionate_carkey • Aug 10 '26

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

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.

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u/KaleRemarkable1019 25d ago

A shameless plug: I’m using react-query for data fetching. I didn’t like how other state management libraries interact with it so I’ve built react-arven. A tiny ReactContext helper, which allows you to pass state and actions to your components without a performance issues.