react-toastify vs react-hot-toast vs react-toast-notifications vs react-notifications-component

React Notification Libraries Comparison

React notification libraries provide developers with tools to display toast notifications, alerts, and messages in a user-friendly manner. These libraries enhance user experience by delivering timely feedback and updates, which are crucial for interactive applications. They vary in features, customization options, and ease of use, allowing developers to choose the right fit for their project needs. Effective notifications can significantly improve the usability of applications by guiding users through actions and informing them of system states or errors.

Package	Downloads	Stars	Size	Issues	Publish	License

react-toastify	2,414,818	13,139	536 kB	78	2 months ago	MIT
react-hot-toast	1,188,177	10,297	180 kB	126	2 months ago	MIT
react-toast-notifications	77,841	2,172	-	30	4 years ago	MIT
react-notifications-component	29,172	1,282	129 kB	18	-	MIT

react-toastify

react-hot-toast

react-toast-notifications

react-notifications-component

React-Toastify

React toastify

stacked

custom-style

🎉 React-Toastify allows you to add notifications to your app with ease.

Installation

$ npm install --save react-toastify
$ yarn add react-toastify

  import React from 'react';

  import { ToastContainer, toast } from 'react-toastify';
  
  function App(){
    const notify = () => toast("Wow so easy!");

    return (
      <div>
        <button onClick={notify}>Notify!</button>
        <ToastContainer />
      </div>
    );
  }

Documentation

Check the documentation to get you started!

Features

Easy to set up for real, you can make it work in less than 10sec!
Super easy to customize
RTL support
Swipe to close 👌
Can choose swipe direction
Super easy to use an animation of your choice. Works well with animate.css for example
Can display a react component inside the toast!
Has onOpen and onClose hooks. Both can access the props passed to the react component rendered inside the toast
Can remove a toast programmatically
Define behavior per toast
Pause toast when the window loses focus 👁
Fancy progress bar to display the remaining time
Possibility to update a toast
You can control the progress bar a la nprogress 😲
You can limit the number of toast displayed at the same time
Dark mode 🌒
Pause timer programmaticaly
Stacked notifications!
And much more !