Building Modern React Apps in 2025 - A Guide to Cutting-Edge Tools and Tech Stacks

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Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library
Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.
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  1. zustand

    🐻 Bear necessities for state management in React

    TanStack Query Zustand Jotai Context API

  2. Nutrient

    Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library. Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.

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  3. vite

    Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

    Astro Next.js Remix Vite Tanstack Start

  4. shadcn/ui

    A set of beautifully-designed, accessible, and customizable components to help you build your component library. Open Source.

    Tailwind CSS shadcn/ui NextUI Material UI DaisyUI Park UI Aceternity UI

  5. Tailwind CSS

    A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

    Tailwind CSS shadcn/ui NextUI Material UI DaisyUI Park UI Aceternity UI

  6. park-ui

    Beautifully designed components built with Ark UI and Panda CSS that work with a variety of JS frameworks.

    Tailwind CSS shadcn/ui NextUI Material UI DaisyUI Park UI Aceternity UI

  7. heroui

    🚀 Beautiful, fast and modern React UI library. (Previously NextUI)

    Tailwind CSS shadcn/ui NextUI Material UI DaisyUI Park UI Aceternity UI

  8. Next.js

    The React Framework

    Astro Next.js Remix Vite Tanstack Start

  9. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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  10. jotai

    👻 Primitive and flexible state management for React

    TanStack Query Zustand Jotai Context API

  11. GreenSock-JS

    GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform), a JavaScript animation library for the modern web

    Framer Motion React Spring GSAP (GreenSock) Remotion Anime.js

  12. daisyui

    🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼  The most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library

    Tailwind CSS shadcn/ui NextUI Material UI DaisyUI Park UI Aceternity UI

  13. Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

    Cursor Windsurf VS Code + GitHub Copilot

  14. astro

    The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!

    Astro Next.js Remix Vite Tanstack Start

  15. anime.js

    JavaScript animation engine

    Framer Motion React Spring GSAP (GreenSock) Remotion Anime.js

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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