React Flow
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Jan 3, 2026first mention
Sep 10, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“which is pretty great for the purpose”
switched from Mermaidon “Ask HN: What fun and interesting project(s) are you …”
“The visual canvas (React Flow) was a deliberate choice over a form-based UI”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: What fun and interesting project(s) are you working on? 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) 1 mention
- The cost of building a workflow editor on React Flow 1 mention
- Show HN: My colleague said my prompts were unreadable. I built a prompt builder 1 mention
- Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs 1 mention
- Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs 1 mention
Data: react-flow.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“which is pretty great for the purpose”
“React Flow + Trigger.dev”
I find it disrespectful how you shape React Flow, an open-source library you managed to built something on top and charge people money for. Quoting from your other website (linked from OT website): https://www.overflow.dev/ > React Flow examples show possible approaches, not production coverage. They omit edge cases, performance considerations, and maintenance paths. Overflow gives you the end result: hardened behavi
“The visual canvas (React Flow) was a deliberate choice over a form-based UI”
“The frontend uses React Flow for the graph visualization.”
“The graph visualization is built with React Flow.”
“play with the Web MIDI APIs and React Flow”
“I was writing a React application at work based on React Flow”