👩💻 State of React 2025 Results
State of React 2025 results: React 19, the Compiler, server functions, lighter ecosystem tools, and independent React Foundation governance.
Year after year, React defies the frontend trend of “rapid obsolescence.” It isn’t disappearing, and it continues to evolve. Given that generative AI learns from existing codebases, an interesting question arises: could React become the first truly “everlasting ecosystem”? It’s too early to draw conclusions, but surveys like this help us understand where the ecosystem is heading.
📊 The overall picture
The survey results show:
- React still dominates, with no noticeable exodus.
- Version 19 is gaining momentum.
- Developers like the simplification of existing APIs (such as
forwardRef) and the arrival of useful new hooks and features. useEffectis still a pain point, but the team is offering more and more alternative approaches.- Overall satisfaction with React has risen slightly, except for server functions: their ratings dropped noticeably toward the end of the year after the December CVEs. The team will have to earn that trust again.
- The community has high hopes for React Compiler. Whether it can address the main performance pain points is something we’ll see next year.
🌐 The ecosystem
- In state management, there’s a sense of fatigue with overloaded solutions like MobX, Redux, Recoil, and Effector. Developers increasingly choose lighter tools, such as Zustand and Jotai.
- Among backend solutions, interest in Next.js has been falling for several years now. The newcomer Waku has attracted considerable interest; let’s see how it develops. Remix is in a transitional phase, while React Router is losing a little ground to more modern solutions.
- In testing, Jest is gradually giving up ground while Vitest grows.
- No surprises in validation: Zod clearly dominates. The approach of “taking the best from competitors and making it more convenient” has proved more successful than the entirely new ArkType.
🤝 The community
Trust in Vercel and Meta is gradually declining, so developers welcomed the creation of an independent body, the React Foundation. With React increasingly becoming the “default language” for AI-generated code, the ecosystem really does need independent governance.
Overall, it feels like the React ecosystem is maturing. Less hype, more pragmatic tool choices. And for now, React looks far too confident to disappear anytime soon.
Read the full survey results here
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