# zustand-state-management

Enforces Zustand store best practices in React and TypeScript apps, covering store slices, SSR, and testing. It helps eliminate selector re-renders and hydration bugs.

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- Author: Mindrally
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Mindrally/skills/tree/HEAD/zustand-state-management/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-08
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/zustand-state-management

## What it does

This skill guides AI agents on writing clean Zustand stores in React and TypeScript. It enforces clear boundaries: local UI state stays in `useState`, while server caches belong in libraries like TanStack Query or SWR. State is strictly partitioned. For non-trivial domains, it instructs agents to build typed slices and merge them only at the root store boundary.

Selectors and component performance receive direct attention. The skill mandates using `useShallow` from `zustand/react/shallow` whenever a selector returns an object or tuple, avoiding unnecessary re-renders. Anonymous setters are banned in favor of named actions. Persisting auth tokens or secrets to browser storage is explicitly forbidden because plain storage exposes critical credentials.

SSR and React Server Components require strict isolation. Browser stores cannot be read inside server components. To prevent state leakage across concurrent requests in Next.js, the skill enforces per-request store factories instead of global singletons.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Mindrally/skills --skill zustand-state-management -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/zustand-state-management/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/zustand-state-management/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Mindrally/skills --skill zustand-state-management -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/zustand-state-management/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Mindrally/skills --skill zustand-state-management -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/zustand-state-management/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Mindrally/skills zustand-state-management
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/zustand-state-management/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Mindrally/skills --skill zustand-state-management -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Mindrally/skills --path zustand-state-management
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/zustand-state-management/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Mindrally/skills --skill zustand-state-management -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Mindrally/skills/tree/HEAD/zustand-state-management/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- split monolithic stores into domain-focused typed slices
- prevent redundant component re-renders with `useShallow` selectors
- configure `persist` middleware with migrations while excluding sensitive tokens
- isolate client stores from React Server Components and SSR frameworks
- test store actions directly without mounting React UI components

## Example prompts
- Design a Zustand store for an order cart using typed actions and useShallow selectors.
- Configure filter persistence with persist middleware, partialize, and migration logic.
- Refactor this global store into isolated slices and add unit tests for its actions.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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name: zustand-state-management
description: "Best practices for Zustand state management in React and TypeScript applications, covering store design, selectors, middleware, SSR, and testing. Use when creating or refactoring Zustand stores, deciding whether state belongs in Zustand vs component state vs a server-state library, optimizing selector re-renders, adding persist/devtools/immer middleware, or handling Zustand with SSR/React Server Components."
metadata:
  maintainer: Mindrally
  source: https://github.com/Mindrally/skills
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# Zustand State Management

This skill covers designing and using Zustand stores in React and TypeScript applications, including state ownership decisions, store slicing, selector performance, middleware, SSR, and testing.

## State Ownership

- Keep ephemeral UI state in the nearest component with `useState` or `useReducer` — don't reach for Zustand by default.
- Use URL state for shareable filters, pagination, tabs, and search params.
- Use Zustand only for client state that is genuinely shared across unrelated components (auth session view state, command palette, cart draft, editor state, etc.).
- Use TanStack Query, SWR, RTK Query, or the project's existing data layer for server state — don't duplicate fetched server data into a Zustand store unless there's a documented offline or draft-editing requirement.
- Implement functional, declarative patterns; avoid classes. Use descriptive variable names with auxiliary verbs like `isLoading`, `hasError`.

## Store Design

- Model each store as state plus named actions; avoid exposing anonymous setters for component code to misuse.
- Keep stores small and domain-focused rather than one global store for the entire application.
- Split large stores into typed slices, then apply middleware only at the composed store boundary.
- Keep derived values as selectors or small pure helpers unless they must be cached in state.
- Store serializable data by default; keep DOM nodes, promises, sockets, and timers outside store state.

```typescript
import { create } from 'zustand'

interface SidebarState {
  isOpen: boolean
  activePanelId: string | null
}

interface SidebarActions {
  openPanel: (panelId: string) => void
  close: () => void
  toggle: () => void
}

type SidebarStore = SidebarState & SidebarActions

export const useSidebarStore = create<SidebarStore>()((set) => ({
  isOpen: false,
  activePanelId: null,
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