From Chaos to Confidence: Avoiding the Biggest Mistakes in React State Management

Abstract

In this talk, we’ll walk through real examples of where state decisions went sideways from apps that became impossible to debug, to companies that had to rewrite their frontends because of poor architectural choices. Then, I’ll walk you through a beginner-friendly decision framework you can use to avoid those same mistakes.

You’ll learn:

• How to recognize when a state tool is working against you
• The three most common mistakes teams make with local, global, and server state
•  How to future-proof your app by asking better questions at the start

This talk is honest, practical, and full of lessons I wish I had when I started building in React. It’s for developers who are tired of guessing and want a better way to think about state, scale, and sanity.