The era of “fetching-on-render” and “waterfall hell” inside useEffect is officially behind us. With React 19 widely adopted in 2025, the conversation has shifted from how to use hooks to where your code actually lives.
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.”
It’s 2025. By now, Hooks have effectively won the “state management wars” for local component logic. We all know useState and useEffect like the back of our hands. But here is the uncomfortable truth: Hooks alone do not make an architecture.
