SaaS starters · Rank #4
React Starter Kit (Kriasoft)
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
- 13 commits by 3 contributors in the last 90 days (2 in the last 30).
- Latest release v0.4.0, 4046 days ago.
- On current major: Astro, Better Auth, Drizzle, React, Tailwind CSS, tRPC, Zod.
Dependency freshness
| Package | Declared | Latest | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astro astro | 7.3.2 | 7.3.5 | Current |
| Better Auth better-auth | 1.7.4 | 1.7.6 | Current |
| Drizzle drizzle-orm | 0.45.2 | 0.45.3 | Current |
| React react | 19.3.0 | 19.3.0 | Current |
| Stripe SDK stripe | 22.6.2 | 22.6.2 | 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 | 4.6.5 | Current |
Declared = lowest version the kit's package.json allows. Latest = npm "latest" tag. TypeScript and the Stripe SDK are shown but not counted in the verdict.
What's in the stack
- Framework
- Astro, Vite
- 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
- AuthEmail OTP login
Better Auth with email OTP
- AuthPasskey authentication
Better Auth with email OTP, passkey
- AuthGoogle OAuth
Better Auth with email OTP, passkey, Google OAuth
- BillingStripe subscriptions
Better Auth with email OTP, passkey, Google OAuth, organizations, and Stripe subscriptions
Extracted from the kit's README by a local AI model (qwen3.5:4b) on Sep 26, 2026. Every item is checked against an exact README quote. A README claim is the maker's description, not something we tested.