Framework · 2024–now · Platform Wars
TanStack Start
Full-stack React on TanStack Router, Vite, and server functions — the typed alternative to Next's App Router gravity.
Why TanStack Start stuck
TanStack Start stuck as the third full-stack React option because typed routes and deploy-anywhere Vite output answer a real Next tax. It will not unseat Vercel hiring gravity. Remix mutated into React Router Framework Mode; Start took the "I want loaders without the App Router religion" slot. Admiration is type safety; adoption is still a rounding error next to Next.
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Framework · 2016–now
Next.js
React with routing, SSR, and deployment opinions — App Router gravity and vendor lock-in as the default web stack.
Framework · 2020–2025
Remix
Web standards–first React framework with nested routes and forms. Merged into React Router; the ideas survived the brand.
Framework · 2013–now
React
Components and unidirectional data. Won the front-end by being good enough and having a gravitational ecosystem.
Platform · 2020–now
Vite
ESM-native dev server that made webpack feel instantaneously obsolete for new projects.
Language · 2012–now
TypeScript
JS with a typechecker that conquered the ecosystem — then a native Go compiler that made `tsc` an order of magnitude faster. The rare fad that became the floor.