Why React instead of another frontend framework?

React's maturity, hiring pool, and ecosystem make it a low-risk long-term choice for most product builds. We'll recommend an alternative if a project's specific requirements call for one.

Do you use React alone or with a framework?

In production we almost always pair React with Next.js rather than a bare React setup — see the Next.js page for why.

Frontend

React

The library behind most of the interfaces we ship

What it is

React is a component-based JavaScript library for building user interfaces, maintained by Meta and one of the most widely adopted front-end tools in the industry.

Why it matters

Component architecture keeps large interfaces maintainable — UI is broken into small, testable, reusable pieces instead of one tangled page. Its ecosystem (routing, state management, testing tools) is mature and well-documented, which reduces long-term maintenance risk.