SaaS starters · Rank #9
React Starter Kit (Kriasoft)
Grade A: derived only from the two verdicts below. How grades work
Modern React starter kit with Bun, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, tRPC, Stripe, and Cloudflare Workers. Production-ready monorepo for building fast web apps.
Why this verdict
How we check →- 14 commits by 4 contributors in the last 90 days (1 in the last 30). receipt ↗
- Latest release v0.4.0, 4069 days ago. receipt ↗
- On current major: Astro, Better Auth, Drizzle, React, Tailwind CSS, tRPC, Zod. receipt ↗
- Not counted in verdict: Stripe SDK 22 → 23. receipt ↗
Snapshot: commit dbdb0d4 on main, checked 2026-10-19 06:03 UTC. Receipts link to files at this exact commit.
Dependency freshness
| Package | Declared | Latest | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stripe SDK stripe | 22.6.2 | 23.0.0 | Behind, not counted |
| Astro astro | 7.3.2 | 7.4.0 | Current |
| Better Auth better-auth | 1.7.4 | 1.7.11 | Current |
| Drizzle drizzle-orm | 0.45.2 | 0.45.4 | Current |
| React react | 19.3.0 | 19.3.1 | Current |
| Tailwind CSS tailwindcss | 4.3.3 | 4.3.3 | Current |
| tRPC @trpc/server | 11.18.0 | 11.19.0 | Current |
| TypeScript typescript | 7.0.2 | 7.0.2 | Current |
| Zod zod | 4.6.2 | 4.6.7 | Current |
Declared = lowest version the kit's dependency file (package.json, pyproject.toml or requirements.txt) allows. Latest = the npm "latest" tag or the newest PyPI release. TypeScript, the Stripe SDK, FastAPI and other 0.x packages are shown but not counted in the verdict.
What's in the stack
- Auth
- Better Auth
- Payments
- Stripe
- Database / ORM
- Drizzle, Postgres.js
- Resend, React Email
- API layer
- tRPC, TanStack Query, GraphQL, Hono
- Testing
- Vitest
Detected from declared dependencies. A listed package means it's installed, not necessarily fully wired up.
What the README says you get
- APIType-safe tRPC API
TypeScript, tRPC, and Drizzle ORM create a single type contract
- AuthEmail OTP sign-in
Better Auth with email OTP, passkey, Google OAuth
- AuthPasskey login
Better Auth with email OTP, passkey, Google OAuth
- AuthGoogle OAuth
Better Auth with email OTP, passkey, Google OAuth
- BillingStripe subscriptions
organizations, and Stripe subscriptions
- DataDrizzle ORM
Drizzle ORM with Neon PostgreSQL, migrations, and seed data
- DataNeon PostgreSQL
Drizzle ORM with Neon PostgreSQL, migrations, and seed data
- DataDatabase migrations
Drizzle ORM with Neon PostgreSQL, migrations, and seed data
- DataSeed data
Drizzle ORM with Neon PostgreSQL, migrations, and seed data
- DeployCloudflare Workers deploy
Three Cloudflare Workers (web, app, api) connected via service bindings
- TeamsOrganizations
Better Auth with email OTP, passkey, Google OAuth, organizations
- UITanStack Router
React 19, TanStack Router (file-based), TanStack Query, Jotai
- UITailwind CSS v4
TanStack Query, Jotai, Tailwind CSS v4, shadcn/ui
- UIshadcn/ui components
Tailwind CSS v4, shadcn/ui
Extracted from the kit's README by a local AI model (deepseek-flash) on Sep 29, 2026. Every item is checked against an exact README quote. A README claim is the maker's description, not something we tested.
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History
Sep 26, 2026 → Oct 19, 2026. One square per check, colored by maintenance status. Hover for details.
Show as a table
| Date | Maintenance | Dependencies | Commits (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 2026 | Active | Current deps | 14 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Active | Current deps | 14 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Active | Current deps | 13 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Active | Current deps | 13 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | Active | Current deps | 13 |
Sources
Every claim on this page comes from these public records, checked . Open them to verify.
- Commit history ↗ default branch (main) at the checked commit: pulse, contributors, last commit
- Releases ↗ latest release
- package.json ↗ declared dependency versions and stack (at commit dbdb0d4)
- apps/api/package.json ↗ declared dependency versions and stack (at commit dbdb0d4)
- apps/app/package.json ↗ declared dependency versions and stack (at commit dbdb0d4)
- apps/email/package.json ↗ declared dependency versions and stack (at commit dbdb0d4)
- apps/web/package.json ↗ declared dependency versions and stack (at commit dbdb0d4)
- packages/core/package.json ↗ declared dependency versions and stack (at commit dbdb0d4)
- README ↗ quoted features at the checked commit
- npm registry ↗ latest versions (each linked in the table above)