5 Essential Tools for ReactJS in 2025

The React JS environment has become a growing list of development tools and libraries. The great number of tools show the popularity of the library. For developers, it can be a exhausting task to find the best tools to use in React JS, to make this task easier I would like to share a list of essential tools to work with react in 2025.

React Developer Tools

React Developer Tools allows us to inspect React components, edit props and state, and identify performance issues. You can simply add it as a Chrome, Firefox or Microsoft Edge extension to your browser. This extension made component interactions and  debugging easier.

Axios

Axios is a handy and simple tool but powerful HTTP client, based on Promises. It supports async/await syntax to make requests from the browser. It also mange error handling via catch. Axios supports HTTP requests such as GET, DELETE, POST, PUT, and PATCH.

Redux

Redux is JavaScript container that holds an application’s state in a store that allows any component to access and use it.  Redux make it easy to trace when, where, why, and how your application's state changed. Redux also provides the Redux Toolkit, useful to write Redux logic easily.

MUI

MUI is a massive library of UI components to build React applications. This library is an open-source project follows Google's guidelines for creating components, giving you a customizable library of advanced UI elements such as buttons, dropdown menus, toolbars, and so on.

Storybook

Storybook is an open-source React tool that helps you develop UI components in  isolation. It runs in your codebase, but separately from your application and provides a UI development environment and UI component playground.