---
title: "Introducing react-amplitude"
description: "At Amplitude, we log app analytics with custom Redux middleware. It's a great system with one big drawback: prop plumbing. Here's what happened when I decided to tackle the issue."
canonical: "https://amplitude.com/en-us/blog/introducing-react-amplitude"
---

# Introducing react-amplitude

At Amplitude, we log app analytics with custom Redux middleware. It's a great system with one big drawback: prop plumbing. Here's what happened when I decided to tackle the issue.

Source: https://amplitude.com/en-us/blog/introducing-react-amplitude

---

[React](https://amplitude.com/track/react) is the engine of Amplitude’s web app. We log app analytics using custom Redux middleware that translates Redux events to Amplitude logEvent calls. While this setup brings a host of benefits, there are some disadvantages. The main drawback is “prop plumbing” — the process of moving props through multiple layers.

I wanted to dig deeper into the chronic prop plumbing issue. So, for a hackathon held earlier this year, I decided to tackle the issue by building a declarative, React component-based Amplitude API.

It turned out that with my API, I could address more than just the plumbing event properties issue. One of the most exciting use cases I came across was react-amplitude’s ability to instrument a large surface area of their apps with minimal effort. Basically, this means that with only a few lines of code, you can generate insightful user behavior data across large areas of your app.

[Read more about how I built my API, and find out what’s in store for react-amplitude.](https://amplitude.engineering/introducing-react-amplitude-d7b5258bc708)

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