Jotai offers an atomic approach to global state management in React applications. It allows developers to build state by combining 'atoms,' which are fundamental units of state. This design automatically optimizes renders based on atom dependencies, effectively solving common issues like extra re-renders associated with React Context and reducing the need for manual memoization.
Jotai provides a developer experience similar to signals while maintaining a declarative programming model. It's highly scalable, suitable for everything from simple `useState` replacements to complex enterprise-level TypeScript applications. The library includes various utilities and extensions to enhance its functionality and is trusted in production by innovative companies.
It features a minimal, TypeScript-oriented API, making it as straightforward to use as React's `useState` hook, but with the added benefits of globally accessible state, easy implementation of derived state, and automatic elimination of unnecessary re-renders. Jotai also supports server-side rendering with frameworks like Next.js and Waku.