React-Toastify
A React library that shows pop-up notification messages (toasts) in your app.
- Stars
- 13.4k
- Forks
- 744
- Licence
- MIT
- Language
- TypeScript
- Last update
- 8 days ago
- Type
- Library
What it is
React-Toastify is a JavaScript library for React apps that shows small, temporary notification messages called toasts. You add a ToastContainer component once, then call toast() from anywhere in your code to display a message. It is used to give users quick feedback such as confirmations or errors without interrupting what they are doing.
- Show a success message after a form is saved
- Display an error toast when a network request fails
- Update an existing toast to show progress or a new status
- Render a custom React component inside a toast
- Limit how many toasts appear on screen at the same time
Great for
- React developers who need simple on-screen notifications
- Apps that want to show several stacked messages at once
- Teams that want to customize notification styling or animation
- Projects that need right-to-left (RTL) language support
Not ideal for
- Non-React projects, since the library is built for React (the README shows only React usage)
- People who need a finished app rather than a code library
- Projects that need notifications with complex built-in workflows beyond what the README describes
How to get it
- 1
Install with a package manager
You'll need: Node.js and npm or yarn · React
Install with npm
npm install --save react-toastifyInstall with yarn
yarn add react-toastify - 2
Run it
- Install the package with npm or yarn.
- Import ToastContainer and toast from 'react-toastify' in your component.
- Place <ToastContainer /> once in your component tree.
- Call toast("Your message") from a click handler or other code to show a notification.
- 3
Get the most out of it
- Use the per-toast behavior options to set different rules for individual notifications
- Pass a React component into a toast to show richer content
- Use the onOpen and onClose hooks to run code when toasts appear or close
- Use the programmatic remove and update features to manage toasts after they are shown
- Check the documentation site for the full list of options and a live demo
Downloads
Strengths
- Setup is short: the README example needs only a container and a toast() call
- Many listed features, including swipe to close, progress bar, dark mode and stacking
- Actively maintained, with a recent push and a CI badge in the README
Trade-offs
- Feature list is long and the README is brief, so details depend on the external documentation site
- Styling and behavior options beyond the basics require reading the docs
- Dependent on React, so it does not help outside that ecosystem
How it compares
| Project | Stars | Type | Level | Updated | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| react-toastify (this) | 13.4k | Library | beginner | 8 days ago | React developers who need simple on-screen notifications |
| react-hot-toast | 11k | Library | beginner | 2 months ago | React developers who need simple notification messages in a web app |
| sonner | 13.1k | Library | beginner | 3 months ago | React developers who want quick, good-looking notifications without building their own |
| zustand | 58.9k | Library | beginner | 15 days ago | React developers who want simpler shared state than Redux |
| react-hook-form | 44.9k | Library | intermediate | 5 days ago | React developers building forms with several fields |
| table | 28.5k | Library | intermediate | 16 days ago | Developers building custom data tables in React, Vue, Solid, Svelte or another supported framework |
Stats synced from GitHub. The assessment above was drafted with AI from the project's README on 2026-10-29 and may miss recent changes — check the README before relying on a command. MIT licence: free to use, modify and distribute, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.