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State of React 2024

Features

We asked respondents about their thoughts on 28 distinct features, from omnipresent hooks such as useState, to more niche APIs like useDeferredValue. Be sure to try and sort by “sentiment”!

All Features

This chart recaps all of the survey's feature questions. The main bars represent a respondent's experience; and they are then further subdivided according to that respondent's sentiment. You can change the grouping to alternate between both.

Worth highlighting this year: createPortal, while only used by 46.4% of respondents, was the fifth most loved feature. The Taint API on the other hand was both the least used and most unknown feature – which make sense since it's still experimental.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, useState was not only the most used feature but also the most beloved with only 1.26% of negative sentiment, which goes to show that simple solutions will always have their place.

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98.9%
6,927
2

97.8%
6,949
3

96.7%
7,711
4

93.2%
5.1%
6,927
5

92.3%
6%
6,944
6

88.4%
9.4%
6,936
7

87.8%
8.8%
6,959
8

85.4%
9.4%
7,774
9

75.8%
18.4%
4.7%
7,682
10

73%
17.4%
8.4%
7,710

Experience

  • Used it: Respondents who have used an item.
  • Heard of it: Respondents who have heard about an item, but haven't used it.
  • Never heard of it: Respondents who have never heard about an item.

Sentiment

  • Positive: Respondents who are interested in learning more about a technology; or are willing to use it again.
  • Neutral: Responents who did not indicate any sentiment about a technology.
  • Negative: Respondents who are not interested in learning more about a technology; or have used it and had a negative experience.
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Main APIs Over Time

createContext
createPortal
forwardRef
Fragment
lazy
memo
Profiler
StrictMode
act

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Hooks Over Time

useCallback
useContext
useDeferredValue
useEffect
useId
useMemo
useReducer
useRef
useState
useSyncExternalStore
useLayoutEffect

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New APIs Over Time

React cache
React Server Components
Server Actions
startTransition
Suspense
Taint API
use()
useFormStatus
useTransition
useActionState (formerly useFormState)
useOptimistic

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We asked members of the React community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2024 Pick: Tanstack Start

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Main APIs Pain Points

What pain points have you encountered related to the APIs mentioned above?
Freeform
Multiple
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2

3

4

Context API

5

Excessive complexity

6

7

Excessive context re-renderings

8

9

Testing

10

Error handling

11

Other Answers

Answers matching “Other Answers” 684
0%
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40%
60%
80%
100%
% of question respondents
1,081
14%

Hooks Pain Points

What pain points have you encountered with hooks?
Freeform
Multiple
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100%
1

2

Dependency arrays

3

4

5

Excessive complexity

6

Excessive rerendering

7

State management (useState, Redux, Context, etc.)

8

useLayoutEffect

9

10

11

Other Answers

Answers matching “Other Answers” 528
0%
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40%
60%
80%
100%
% of question respondents
722
9%

New APIs Pain Points

What pain points have you encountered related to new APIs?
Freeform
Multiple
0%
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100%
1

2

Excessive complexity

3

Form issues

4

Next.js issues

5

Frontend and backend integration

6

7

8

9

SSR

10

11

Other Answers

Answers matching “Other Answers” 284
0%
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% of question respondents
322
4%

Reading List

25% of respondents added at items to their reading list while taking the survey in order to learn more about them later. Here is a breakdown of their picks.

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1

777
2

674
3

621
4

619
5

612
6

584
7

551
8

524
9

504
10

502
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% of question respondents
How many time each item was added to respondent's Reading List, a feature that lets people learn more about specific topics as they take the survey.
1,946
25%

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