--- title: "'If you use React, you should be using a React framework.'" publication: "React Status" issue: 323 published_at: "2023-01-25" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/323" --- Plus Expo Router 1.0 rc, another React component library, and Josh Comeau's new React course. | #​323 — January 25, 2023 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/323) Together with [![ButterCMS\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_700,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:10/h4j9v0v4af8ufqqreqfq.png)](https://buttercms.com/react-cms/?utm_source=reactstatus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=retirelegacycms) React Status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/oaujkm8l3ic24gd2e9qu.jpg)](https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/pull/5487) 🔥 ["Create React App Is Not A Great Recommendation to Be Making.."](https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/pull/5487) — Theo, an increasingly well known [developer YouTuber](https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg), ran into numerous issues with [Create React App](https://create-react-app.dev/) and decided to officially float the idea of having the React docs recommend [Vite](https://vitejs.dev/) instead. It kicked off quite the discussion, and you can get involved too. Theo Browne [A Cure for `useState` Hell?](https://www.builder.io/blog/use-reducer) — Spoiler: It’s `useReducer`. Steve Sewell [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/745c866c.png)](https://buttercms.com/react-cms/?utm_source=reactstatus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=retirelegacycms) [🧈 Retire your Legacy CMS with ButterCMS](https://buttercms.com/react-cms/?utm_source=reactstatus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=retirelegacycms) — ButterCMS is your new content backend. We’re SaaS so we host, maintain, and scale the CMS. Enable your marketing team to update website + app content without needing you. Try the #1 rated SaaS Headless CMS for your JS app today. Free for 30 days. 🧈 ButterCMS sponsor Overheard [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/1617611126514266112): “If you use React, you should be using a React framework. If your existing app doesn't use a framework, you should incrementally migrate to one. If you're creating a new React project, you should use a framework from the beginning.” ___ [// Andrew Clark](https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/1617611126514266112) of the React core team An [ensuing discussion on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34506299) on the quote above resulted in quite a few people disagreeing with its premise. ▶[Did Next.js 13 Break State Management?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpMAH2hzKi8) — One of our favorite React YouTubers takes a practical look into a problem he encountered when trying to use MUI with Next.js 13, as well as how [Zustand](https://zustand-demo.pmnd.rs/) can play nicely with Next.js for managing state. _(15 minutes.)_ Jack Herrington [Making Your React Native Gestures Feel Natural](https://shopify.engineering/making-react-native-gestures-feel-natural) — Shopify is using React Native for its main shop app and has shared a few pointers to making React Native “gestures and animations feel better and more natural”. 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DecaUI is another set of accessible and customizable React components (thirteen in all) focused on providing consistency through using a root theme to serve up properties throughout an app. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/deca-org/deca-ui) Heril Saha [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/v1674659851/oocugxbmgbgsrnzxdroj.png)](https://github.com/azouaoui-med/react-pro-sidebar) [React Pro Sidebar 1.0: Customizable Side Navigation Components](https://github.com/azouaoui-med/react-pro-sidebar) — A sidebar solution which comes with a solid [demo](https://azouaoui-med.github.io/react-pro-sidebar/iframe.html?id=playground--playground&args=&viewMode=story) and [Storybook](https://azouaoui-med.github.io/react-pro-sidebar/?path=/docs/sidebar--basic). 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[GitHub repo.](https://github.com/sAleksovski/react-native-android-widget) Stefan Aleksovski - [Expo Router 1.0 Release Candidate](https://blog.expo.dev/announcing-the-expo-router-v1-release-candidate-c5680b88a18c) ↳ File-based routing but in native apps. - [React I18nify 6.0](https://github.com/sealninja/react-i18nify) ↳ i18n translation and localization components and helpers. - [Reactist 19.0](https://github.com/Doist/reactist) ↳ React component suite. 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