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XState v5 in a React App: When State Machines Beat useState and Zustand

Use XState v5 for flows with distinct steps and forbidden transitions — checkout, payment, wizards, video players — and stop faking state machines with four booleans and a useEffect. Keep Zustand or React Query for shared app state; the two solve different problems and most apps want both.

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Shadcn CLI v2 + Tailwind v4: The Component Workflow That Killed My UI Library

Shadcn CLI v2 turns component sharing into a copy-paste workflow with private registries and three-way diff updates. On Tailwind v4's CSS-native theming, it's the smallest tooling surface for shared React components — and the reason to delete your hand-rolled UI library.