RRoyceinpkgpulse.hashnode.dev·Mar 1 · 8 min readZustand vs Redux Toolkit: Which Do You Actually Need?Zustand just passed Redux in weekly npm downloads. Not Redux Toolkit — the original redux package. The library that defined React state management for nearly a decade now has fewer weekly installs than a 1KB store with no providers. That's not a fluk...00
RRoyceinpkgpulse.hashnode.dev·Feb 28 · 8 min readHTMX vs React in 2026: Do You Still Need a JavaScript Framework?HTMX is 14KB. React + ReactDOM is ~47KB — before you add a router, state management, and a build system. React has 96 million weekly downloads. HTMX has 94,000. That's a 1,000x gap. But HTMX gained 16,800 GitHub stars in 2024 — more than React gained...00
RRoyceinpkgpulse.hashnode.dev·Feb 28 · 8 min readBest React UI Libraries in 2026: MUI vs Ant Design vs Chakra vs MantineMUI has 1.4 million weekly downloads. Mantine has 1.35 million. Six months ago, Mantine was at 900K. That growth rate says something about what developers want from their component libraries in 2026. The React UI library landscape has shifted. MUI an...00
RRoyceinpkgpulse.hashnode.dev·Feb 28 · 7 min readESLint vs Biome in 2026: Is the Linter Landscape Changing?Biome lints 10,000 files in 0.8 seconds. ESLint takes 45 seconds. That's not a typo — it's a 56x performance difference. ESLint still dominates with 79.3 million weekly downloads. Biome has 2 million. But Biome's growth rate tells a different story: ...00
RRoyceinpkgpulse.hashnode.dev·Feb 28 · 7 min readElectron vs Tauri in 2026: Desktop Apps, Dramatically DifferentA productivity app team switched from Electron to Tauri. Their installer went from 120MB to 8MB. Cold-start time dropped 70%. RAM usage was halved. Those numbers aren't outliers — they're what happens when you stop shipping an entire browser with eve...00