It’s 2026. If you are still wrestling with !important overrides in Material UI or trying to hack the internal DOM structure of a Bootstrap component just to match a Figma design, you’re doing it the hard way.
If you’ve been in the React ecosystem for more than a week, you’ve heard the argument. “Redux is dead,” they said in 2018. “Context is all you need,” they claimed in 2020. Yet, here we are. It’s 2026, and the battlefield of state management has shifted from “how do we pass data” to “how do we prevent re-renders.”
For years, the desktop application landscape was dominated by a single narrative: if you wanted cross-platform compatibility and a modern UI, you had to accept the heavy resource tax of Electron. We’ve all seen the memes about chat applications eating up gigabytes of RAM.
