If you're building modern React apps where data meets visuals, forms flow, and UX feedback is instant, here's a stack that feels just right:

• 🎨 Visx – for powerful, unopinionated visualizations
• 🔁 SWR – for lightweight, real-time data fetching
• 🧾 React Hook Form – for performant, declarative forms
• 🔔 React Toastify – for polished, plug-and-play toasts

Let’s dive in.

🎨 Visx: D3 + React = Pure Control

“Not a charting library. Just a collection of visualization primitives for React.”

Airbnb built Visx to blend the raw power of D3 with the declarative joy of React — no “chart hell,” just building blocks.

Why it hits different:

• Lightweight – Import only what you need
• Unopinionated – Bring your own animation, state management, styling
• Composable – Build your own charts exactly how you want
• It’s just React – Hooks, JSX, context — all the usual suspects

npm install --save @visx/mock-data @visx/group @visx/shape @visx/scale

import React from 'react';
import { letterFrequency } from '@visx/mock-data';
import { Group } from '@visx/group';
import { Bar } from '@visx/shape';
import { scaleLinear, scaleBand } from '@visx/scale';
// We'll use some mock data from `@visx/mock-data` for this.
const data = letterFrequency;

// Define the graph dimensions and margins
const width = 500;
const height = 500;
const margin = { top: 20, bottom: 20, left: 20, right: 20 };

Example: A simple bar chart built from primitives like <Group>, <Bar>, <AxisBottom>, etc.

import { scaleBand, scaleLinear } from '@visx/scale'
import { Bar } from '@visx/shape'

const data = [{ name: 'A', value: 50 }, { name: 'B', value: 80 }]

const xScale = scaleBand({ domain: data.map(d => d.name), padding: 0.2, range: [0, 300] })
const yScale = scaleLinear({ domain: [0, 100], range: [200, 0] })

export function BarChart() {
  return (
    <svg width={300} height={200}>
      {data.map((d) => (
        <Bar
          key={d.name}
          x={xScale(d.name)}
          y={yScale(d.value)}
          width={xScale.bandwidth()}
          height={200 - yScale(d.value)}
          fill="#3b82f6"
        />
      ))}
    </svg>
  )
}

🔁 SWR: React Hooks for Data Fetching That Feels Right

“Stale-While-Revalidate” – First show cache, then refresh in the background.

Vercel’s SWR gives you data fetching that’s fast, simple, and real-time ready — without the boilerplate.

Why it works:

• Lightning fast: Cache-first with revalidation
• Realtime ready: Auto-refresh, focus-based revalidation
• Flexible: Works with fetch, Axios, or custom fetchers
• Smart: Built-in deduplication, error retries, pagination support

import useSWR from 'swr'

const fetcher = (url) => fetch(url).then(res => res.json())

function Profile() {
  const { data, error, isLoading } = useSWR('/api/user', fetcher)

  if (error) return <div>failed to load</div>
  if (isLoading) return <div>loading...</div>
  return <div>hello {data.name}!</div>
}

Combine this with Visx and boom — live dashboards with real data.

🧾 React Hook Form: Forms That Don’t Suck

“No dependencies. No re-renders. Just fast, native-feeling forms.”

Forget bloated form libraries. React Hook Form (RHF) gives you raw speed and simple DX.

Why it’s a dev favorite:

• Fast mounting: No unnecessary re-renders
• Composable: Plug in your own schema validators (Zod, Yup)
• Tiny: Lightweight, no dependencies
• Zen-like API: register, handleSubmit, watch — that’s it

react-hook-form / react-hook-form

📋 React Hooks for form state management and validation (Web + React Native)

Get started | API | Form Builder | FAQs | Examples

Features

• Built with performance, UX and DX in mind
• Embraces native HTML form validation
• Out of the box integration with UI libraries
• Small size and no dependencies
• Support Yup, Zod, AJV, Superstruct, Joi and others

Install

npm install react-hook-form

Quickstart

import { useForm } from 'react-hook-form';
function App() {
  const {
    register,
    handleSubmit,
    formState: { errors },
  } = useForm();

  return (
    <form onSubmit={handleSubmit((data) => console.log(data))}>
      <input {...register('firstName')} />
      <input {...register('lastName', { required: true })} />
      {errors.lastName && <p>Last name is required.</p>}
      <

…

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import { useForm } from 'react-hook-form'

function ContactForm() {
  const { register, handleSubmit, formState: { errors } } = useForm()

  const onSubmit = data => console.log(data)

  return (
    <form onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)}>
      <input {...register('email', { required: true })} placeholder="Email" />
      {errors.email && <span>This field is required</span>}
      <button type="submit">Send</button>
    </form>
  )
}

Add a toast on submit success? That’s where React Toastify comes in.

🔔 React Toastify: Notifications Without Pain

“Setup in under 10 seconds. Looks good by default. Extensible as hell.”

Your users need feedback. Your team needs control. React Toastify is the answer.

Why it rules:

• RTL support for multilingual apps
• Auto-dismiss, swipe-to-close
• Styled by default, fully customizable
• Zero-setup — works in seconds

$ npm install --save react-toastify
$ yarn add react-toastify

  import React from 'react';

  import { ToastContainer, toast } from 'react-toastify';
  
  function App(){
    const notify = () => toast("Wow so easy!");

    return (
      <div>
        <button onClick={notify}>Notify!</button>
        <ToastContainer />
      </div>
    );
  }

import { toast, ToastContainer } from 'react-toastify'
import 'react-toastify/dist/ReactToastify.css'

toast.success('Form submitted!')

export default function App() {
  return (
    <>
      <ContactForm />
      <ToastContainer />
    </>
  )
}

🚀 Bringing It All Together

Here’s a scenario that stitches everything:

• Use SWR to fetch your metrics.
• Build custom charts with Visx.
• Collect user input using React Hook Form.
• Show feedback with React Toastify.

You're now in full control of your data, UX, and performance, without any bloated libraries dictating how you build.

TL;DR

Want to build stunning dashboards, user-friendly forms, and live experiences — all in React? This stack is your canvas.

💬 Your Turn!
What’s a cool React library you’ve recently used or are planning to try out? Drop a comment — I’m always looking to add new tools to the stack!

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