The Absolute State of Management

This article critiques the concept of 'state management' in the React ecosystem, arguing that libraries like Redux, MobX, Recoil, and Zustand do not truly manage state but merely propagate notifications about state changes. The author questions whether React itself is a state management system, and examines the redundancy of adding multiple libraries to a framework that already claims to handle state. The piece delves into the philosophical and technical differences between state propagation and true state management, highlighting the lack of time and ordering considerations in these tools. It is a tech-focused opinion piece relevant to software development and frontend architecture.