Top 10 Libraries you should consider along with your React Project

Here’s an introduction to the top 10 most popular and essential libraries that work well with React:

1. Vite: Vite helps you to create a React app, it's an alternative to the CRA method to create a React project. Vite uses native ES modules during development and doesn't bundle the entire app upfront. This leads to faster HMR and quicker updates in the browser compared to CRA, which relies on Webpack, leading to slower development builds.

   
   

2. React Router DOM: React is Library itself so it does not have any routing functionality by default, here React Router Dom comes into the picture which helps in routing in SPA (single page application) efficiently.

3. Emotion: Emotion provides a powerful and flexible way to write CSS in JavaScript with optimized performance. It offers styled and CSS APIs and can be used with both object and template literal syntax.

   
   

4. Framer motion: Framer Motion is a powerful library that helps build simple animations, complex gesture-based interactions, drag-and-drop, and more. It makes it easy to control animation using Javascript which is more flexible and easy to manage rather than writing and handling everything using only CSS.

5. React Hook Form: React Hook Form is a lightweight, performant library for handling form inputs and validation. It’s way more efficient than handing form using states.

   
   

6. Axios: Axios is a promise-based HTTP client that simplifies making HTTP requests to interact with REST APIs. It has built-in features like automatic JSON transformation, easier error handling, and support for interceptors, making life easier.

7. React Query (TanStack Query): React Query simplifies data fetching, caching, synchronizing, and updating server state. It reduces the need for Redux in a server-related state.

   
   

8. React Data Table (TanStack Table): TanStack Table makes life easier when dealing with tables in React. It has some amazing features like Client Side Pagination, filters, Global search, column search, sorting, and much more.

9. Recharts: Recharts is a simple, declarative charting library that is built specifically for React. It supports a variety of chart types like bar, line, area, and pie charts with customization.

   
   

10. StoryBook: Storybook is a frontend workshop for building, and testing UI components and pages in isolation outside your app. This makes it easier to focus on building well-structured, reusable components without the distractions of routing, state, or the rest of your app. It's great for building design systems or reusable UI libraries. or building design systems or reusable UI libraries.