React-Toastify

react-toastify is a library that makes it easy to add toast notifications to React applications. With over 13,000 GitHub stars, it offers various features including swipe gestures, dark mode, and stacked notifications. It's incredibly easy to set up—working in less than 10 seconds—while providing extensive customization options.

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🎮 Playground

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Use cases
  • Providing success/failure feedback for user actions (form submissions, data saves, etc.)
  • Implementing real-time notification systems (new messages, system updates, etc.)
  • Displaying async operation progress (file uploads, API calls, etc.)
  • Guiding users through multi-step processes with status updates
  • Error handling and user guidance message displays
Good for
  • Extremely simple setup and usage, accessible even for beginners
  • Rich feature set including swipe gestures, RTL support, dark mode, and progress bars
  • Ability to render React components inside toasts for high extensibility
  • Programmatic toast control (update, remove, pause, etc.)
  • Stacked notifications feature for clean management of multiple alerts
  • Easy integration with external animation libraries like animate.css
Not good for
  • Default styling may require additional customization to perfectly match design systems
  • Bundle size might be larger due to feature richness (if only basic notifications are needed)
Installation
$ npm install react-toastify
Example
import { toast, ToastContainer } from "react-toastify"
import "react-toastify/dist/ReactToastify.css"

export default function Demo() {
  return (
    <>
      <button onClick={() => toast("Hello!")}>
        Show Toast
      </button>
      <ToastContainer />
    </>
  )
}
Comparison

"More features than react-hot-toast, simpler setup than custom solutions."

Trust Metrics

13.4K

GitHub Stars

3.2M

Weekly Downloads

Last Commit:Feb 24, 2025
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