Zustand is a minimal, hook-based state management library for React that provides global state without Redux’s actions, reducers, and providers — just a store and a hook. As the creator of CoreUI with 25 years of front-end development experience, I use Zustand when an application needs shared state across many components but the full Redux setup would be overkill. Zustand stores are plain JavaScript objects with state and actions defined together, and any component can subscribe to exactly the slice of state it needs. The setup is a single create() call — no Provider, no boilerplate.