React libraries for 2025

February 26, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

React Libraries for 2025 β€” Each year, prolific React blogger Robin updates his post covering his opinionated list of essential React ecosystem libraries. He covers a lot of angles from project creation and package management through to state management, animation, form creation, auth, and i18n.

Robin Wieruch

React Officially Sunsetting Create React App β€” This move has been bubbling for a long time now, but the React team is now officially recommending CRA-powered apps migrate to a framework (like Next.js) or build tools like Vite.

Matt Carroll and Ricky Hanlon

SurveyJS: A Powerful React Form Builder that Works with Any Backend β€” Integrate the SurveyJS form-building UI component into your React app and design JSON-powered forms of any complexity without manual coding. Fully customizable, drag-and-drop, compatible with React 19 and any backend. Perfect for data-heavy applications. Start with a free demo.

SurveyJS

πŸ’‘ Part two of the series covers using Feliz to write React components in F# and there are further posts here.

πŸ›   Code, Tools & Libraries

React Explorer: A Way to Visualize any React Powered Site β€” A new tool from React Scan’s creator for turning React sites into interactive visualizations representing the component tree. Highly experimental and new, so your mileage (and whether or not you even find such a visualization helpful) may vary.

Aiden Bai

πŸ”Ž If you like visualizations like the above, Repofiles offers a similar thing for GitHub repo structure. For example, this visualization of the main React repo.

πŸ“’  Elsewhere in JavaScript

A quick roundup of some of other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them: