What's Your Go-To Notification Library for ReactJS? Or Which one is best and easy to use ? 🚀

[Roshan-Metrix]

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Hi folks !

I’ve been exploring response and toast libraries for ReactJS, and while React-Toastify has been great for most use cases, I’m curious to hear what others recommend for modern web apps.

🔹 What notification libraries have you found most useful in terms of customization, performance, and accessibility?
🔹 Are there any new or underrated ones we should check out?
🔹 How do you handle context-aware alerts and feedback across different components/pages?

Also, bonus points if you've paired toast libraries with frameworks like Next.js or handled SSR-friendly setups!

Looking forward to your recommendations and insights. Let's help devs pick the best fit for their stack! 🙌

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[shatrughantwt]

Hi Roshan 👋

Great question! Here's a quick summary of popular React notification libraries:

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🔔 Top Libraries

1. React-Toastify

• Easy to use, customizable, widely adopted.
• Works with Next.js (SSR needs dynamic import).

2. Notistack

• Built on MUI Snackbar, supports stacked toasts.
• Highly flexible, SSR-friendly.

3. Sonner

• Lightweight, minimal, smooth animations.
• Perfect for modern UI and Next.js apps.

4. React Hot Toast

• Hook-based, ideal for async actions.
• Customizable and simple to integrate.

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⚙️ Context-Aware Alerts

Use a global NotificationContext with useReducer and portals to trigger toasts across pages/components.

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✅ Best Fit Summary

• For simplicity: React-Toastify
• For flexibility: Notistack
• For modern design: Sonner

Hope this helps! 🚀

[amitsuthram1]

I like to use Sonner for notifications in React apps because it's lightweight, highly customizable, and works smoothly with frameworks like Next.js. It's a solid modern alternative to React-Toastify for most use cases.

[sschoudhary30]

1. Sonner (by Emil Kowal)

• 💡 If you're after zero-config setup with great UX out-of-the-box, this one’s gold.
• 🔥 Animations are slick, no external styling libraries needed.
• ✅ Works beautifully with Next.js (client-side only), has built-in accessibility.

2. Ark UI Toast (Headless UI by Chakra team)

• Similar to Radix, but framework-agnostic and built-in accessibility.
• 🎨 Ideal if you want full control with utility-first styling (like Tailwind).

Hope this adds value to the thread! Looking forward to seeing what more dev's are experimenting with — especially in the age of App Router, Server Components, and headless UI kits 🙌

Cheers,
Suresh Choudhary

[seranok1337]

sonner is №1, you get amazing animations, alot of room to customize it, and nice little swipe animations.
you can also use react toastify, both are good

[AlexanderLasson]

Top React UI Libraries

1. MUI (Material UI)

• Google's Material Design components for React
• Huge ecosystem, customizable themes, accessibility-focused

2. Chakra UI

• Simple, modular, and accessible
• Styled-system based theming
• Great for rapid prototyping

3. Ant Design

• Enterprise-grade components
• Popular in data-heavy dashboards
• Clean, modern design with internationalization support

4. Radix UI

• Low-level, unstyled primitives for full customization
• Accessibility first
• Great for building your own design system

5. Mantine

• 100+ components, hooks, and utilities
• Dark mode support out of the box
• Fully typed with TypeScript

6. Headless UI

• Completely unstyled UI components
• Works perfectly with Tailwind CSS
• Focused on accessibility and composability

7. Shadcn/ui

• Prebuilt Tailwind CSS + Radix UI components
• Copy-paste approach for full control over code
• Modern and aesthetic defaults

8. Blueprint

• Optimized for complex, data-heavy UIs
• Popular for dashboards and analytics tools
• Strong TypeScript support

9. React Bootstrap

• Bootstrap 5 components rebuilt for React
• Large community and lots of existing themes
• Easy migration for Bootstrap projects

10. Grommet

• Responsive, accessible, and themable
• Great for design-heavy apps
• Built-in layout and styling tools

[broganford]

I would recommend Sonner for sure. It's easy to use, looks nice, and just helpful when building your product or piece of software.

[PraneethBunny123]

@Roshan-Metrix I would say sonner by Shadcn UI, it is easier to use and very modernized. Also, you can add your custom changes to the component provided by sonner

[sattarrasouli]

react-toastify is awesome.