The Absolute State of Management

It is by no means the gravest linguistic crime of the React epoch, 1 but "state management" grates like nails on chalkboard. A Socratic dialogue I keep having about it goes something like this:

me: This UI is far too heavyweight for what it does, have you considered not using React?

them: But how will we do state management without React?

me: What do you mean? are reactive.

them: React manages state in our app.

me: It does? Then what are for?

them: Oh, those manage state.

me:

The libraries that trigger this "Who's on First?" routine include:MobX, which promises "simple, scalable state management."Satchel, apparently, "is characterized by exposing an observable state that makes view updates painless and efficient"Recoil, billed as "a state management library for React"Jotai…