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Some additional libraries
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<li>Data fetching And State management</li>
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<li>Redux Toolkit and RTK query</li>
</ul>
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<li>XSS sanitizer</li>
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<li>DOMPurify</li>
</ul>
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<li>Schema Validation</li>
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<li>Zod</li>
</ul>
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<li>E2E Test</li>
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<li>Playwright</li>
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Why isn’t RTK and RTK Query in that list? I’ve used both TanStack Query and RTK Query, and RTK Query would be my top pick. If you’re not intrested in the state management, then TanStack is probably a better choice, but still surprised RTK isn’t even mentioned.

Using a framework wreaks of inexperience in both developing and systems design.

We shouldn’t forget about testing, so react testing library, vitest and cypress to go.