React

Plasmo

TypeScript-first meta-framework for building browser extensions — often described as "Next.js for browser extensions." Auto-generates manifest.json, handles content scripts, and ships built-in storage and messaging APIs.

Freemium

Frontend Frameworks

5/5

Plasmo is a browser extension framework built on React — React is its component model; every Plasmo extension is a React app compiled by Plasmo's build system.

Astro

Astro is a content-first web framework that ships zero JavaScript to the browser by default, using an islands architecture to hydrate only the interactive components that need it. It supports React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, and other UI libraries within a single project.

Open Source

Frontend Frameworks

4/5

Astro supports React as a UI component framework via @astrojs/react — React components can be embedded in Astro pages as interactive islands while the rest stays static HTML.

WXT

Vite-based, framework-agnostic framework for building cross-browser extensions, often described as "Nuxt for browser extensions," with file-based entrypoints and fast hot reload for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.

Open Source

Frontend Frameworks

4/5

WXT is a browser extension framework that supports React as its UI component layer — React components power the popup and options pages.

Supabase

Open-source Firebase alternative built on PostgreSQL. Provides a full backend stack with database, authentication, real-time subscriptions, file storage, and edge functions — deployable on Supabase Cloud or self-hosted.

Freemium

Databases

5/5

Supabase + React is a popular full-stack combo — the @supabase/supabase-js client integrates naturally with React hooks for real-time subscriptions, auth state, and data fetching.

Firebase

Google's platform for building web and mobile applications with real-time database, authentication, hosting, and serverless functions.

Freemium

Databases

4/5

Firebase is the most common backend for React SPAs — the @firebase/app JS SDK provides Firestore, Auth, and Storage hooks; often used as a quick backend without writing server code.

Convex

Modern application backend with database, backend functions, and real-time sync. Designed for frontend developers.

Freemium

Databases

3/5

Convex is a real-time BaaS with a first-class React SDK — useQuery and useMutation hooks sync server state to React components without manual data fetching.

Laravel

Elegant PHP web framework with expressive syntax. Features MVC architecture, Eloquent ORM, artisan CLI, and comprehensive ecosystem.

Open Source

Backend Frameworks

3/5

Laravel + React is a full-stack PHP pattern — Laravel Inertia.js with React is a first-party supported option for building React SPAs backed by a Laravel API without a separate JSON API layer.

Rork

AI-powered mobile app builder that turns plain-language prompts into React Native or native Swift apps, ready to ship to the App Store and Google Play.

Freemium

AI Builders

5/5

Rork's web output is built with Vite and React, the documented stack behind its web code generation; its iOS and Android outputs use native Swift and Kotlin instead.

Clerk

Clerk is a hosted authentication and user management platform with pre-built sign-in, sign-up, and profile components for React, Next.js, and other frameworks, plus organisations and MFA.

Freemium

Authentication

4/5

Clerk has a first-class React SDK (@clerk/react) with pre-built sign-in/sign-up components and hooks — commonly paired with React in Next.js projects.

Auth0

Auth0 is Okta's enterprise identity platform, with hosted Universal Login, social and enterprise SSO, MFA, passwordless, and machine-to-machine authorization for web, mobile, and API apps.

Freemium

Authentication

4/5

Auth0 has an official React SDK — pre-built hooks (useAuth0) and components handle login, logout, and token management; commonly used in React SPAs that need enterprise-grade auth.

Vercel AI SDK

The dominant open-source TypeScript toolkit for building AI-powered apps and agents — unified model access across 16+ providers, streaming, tool calling, framework-agnostic UI hooks, plus Workflows for durable agents and Sandbox for code execution.

Open Source

Agentic AI

4/5

The AI SDK's @ai-sdk/react package provides useChat, useCompletion, and useObject hooks for streaming chat and generative UI in React apps.

JavaScript

A high-level, dynamic programming language primarily used for web development. Runs natively in browsers and on servers via Node.js, making it the most widely deployed programming language in history.

Open Source

Programming Languages

5/5

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces, with components written in JavaScript or TypeScript using JSX.

Next.js

Next.js is a React meta-framework by Vercel for building full-stack web applications, offering the App Router with React Server Components, hybrid static/SSR rendering, API routes, server actions, and Turbopack-powered builds. It is the most widely adopted React framework for production applications.

Open Source

Frontend Frameworks

5/5

Next.js is a React framework with SSR, routing, and optimization built in.

React Native

Meta's open-source framework for building native iOS and Android applications using React and JavaScript, compiling to genuine native UI components rather than a WebView.

Open Source

Frontend Frameworks

5/5

React Native is React's sibling framework for native mobile apps.

Lovable

Lovable is an AI full-stack app builder that generates React apps from prompts, with a built-in Lovable Cloud backend (database, auth, storage) built on Supabase, plus Stripe payments, GitHub sync, and code editing.

Freemium

AI Builders

5/5

Lovable generates React frontends — React is the component model for all Lovable-scaffolded projects alongside Supabase as the backend.

v0

v0 is Vercel's AI app builder that generates React, Tailwind CSS, and Next.js code from prompts, screenshots, or designs, with a visual Design Mode, GitHub sync, and one-click Vercel deployment.

Freemium

AI Builders

5/5

v0 generates React components using shadcn/ui — React is its component model; every v0 output is a React component.

Vue.js

Progressive JavaScript framework for building user interfaces with an approachable core library and incrementally adoptable ecosystem.

Open Source

Frontend Frameworks

5/5

Both component-based JS UI frameworks; Vue has a gentler learning curve, React has a larger ecosystem and is backed by Meta.

Angular

Angular is a TypeScript-first, opinionated frontend framework maintained by Google, providing a complete platform for building large-scale web applications with built-in routing, forms, HTTP, dependency injection, and a CLI. Its signals-based reactivity model modernised change detection without breaking changes.

Open Source

Frontend Frameworks

5/5

React is a focused UI library; Angular is a full opinionated framework with DI and CLI — Angular suits large enterprise teams, React suits flexible architectures.

HTMX

HTMX gives HTML superpowers by letting you access AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events directly through HTML attributes — no JavaScript required. It works with any backend language.

Open Source

Frontend Frameworks

4/5

htmx enhances server-rendered HTML with partial updates — no JS framework needed; React builds full client-side UIs.

Svelte

Svelte is a compiler-based frontend framework that converts declarative component code into efficient vanilla JavaScript at build time, eliminating the virtual DOM entirely. Svelte 5 introduced runes — a fine-grained reactivity system — alongside SvelteKit as its official full-stack meta-framework.

Open Source

Frontend Frameworks

4/5

Svelte compiles to plain JS with no runtime; React uses a virtual DOM — Svelte bundles are smaller but React has a far bigger ecosystem.