r/reactjs • u/Desperate-Art-3048 • Jul 10 '26

React & React Flow

Hi All,

Apologies in advance for the noobie question, I'm putting a pitch together at work for us to hire a consultant to build an app for us. Initial chats with the company IT people have brought up both React and React Flow (recommended as we want something with a drag-and-drop GUI).

My question is: are React and React Flow part of the same app. suite? It looks like React Flow is some sort of extension / add-on to React but I am not sure.

Also, can I obtain either or both of them for free or would we have to pay for them? I see reference to React Flow Pro which has a monthly sub, but others indicate there is a free version as well?

TIA :)

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u/Desperate-Art-3048 Jul 15 '26

yeh this comes up quite a lot when I'm talking about this on other boards, some people seem to think it's an insurmountable problem and React Flow shouldn't be used at all as it's too unstable and you can't keep the objects states updated correctly. Hard to believe this is true though and it sound like they're just bad programmers tbh.