React App Over-Engineering: Simplify with Zustand, React Query, Shadcn, and Tailwind

Hot take: most React apps are over-engineered. After 7 years and hundreds of codebases, here's what I see teams reach for vs what they actually needed: ❌ Redux → ✅ Zustand ❌ Custom fetch everywhere → ✅ React Query ❌ Design system from scratch → ✅ Shadcn + Tailwind ❌ pages/components/hooks/utils folders → ✅ Feature-based folders Simple is not lazy. Simple is a decision. Match your tool to your problem — not to what the last senior dev you admired was using. Which one do you still see in production in 2026? 👇 #ReactJS #Frontend #JavaScript #FrontendEngineering #TypeScript #WebDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering

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