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🐻 Bear necessities for state management in React

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EDITOR'S TAKE

#2 in the React survey. Tiny, no boilerplate, hook-based. Replaced Redux for most teams. Stays out of your way until you genuinely need it.

Use this if

You have global client state (auth, UI flags, undo history) and useContext is creaking.

Skip if

You only have server state — TanStack Query covers it.