At the last company I worked with, our React codebase was very heavy with enums for exactly this reason (thank you Typescript). Anecdotally, it makes reading a

At the last company I worked with, our React codebase was very heavy with enums for exactly this reason (thank you Typescript). Anecdotally, it makes reading a new codebase WAY easier: switch(state) is much easier to understand than if (a bunch of flags).