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2026-03-21 05:38
You Don't Need Redux: Zustand + TanStack Query Replaced 90% of My State Management
Every React project I built between 2019 and 2023 started the same way: install Redux Toolkit, create a store, write slices for auth, write slices for UI state, write slices for API data, write thunks to fetch that API data, write selectors to read it back out. Hundreds of lines of boilerplate before a single feature was done.
Then I looked at what those slices actually contained. Most of them we...
