Here I want to give you a brief overview of starter kits for a new React project. I want to reflect on advantages and disadvantages, on the skill-level needed as a developer, and on what features each starter project has to offer for you as a React developer. At the end you will know about 3 solutions for different requirements. A bit of context on why I write this guide now: The new React documentation has been released, which sunsets create-react-app (CRA) as the recommended way to start a React application, and instead recommends several starter kits which in their sum were not perfectly well received by the React community (A, B, C, D, E, F, G). For many it seemed too much influenced by politics [0], too heavy on (meta) framework lock-ins [1], too focused on SSR [2], and too far away from the problems a normal tech worker faces in their daily work outside of the bleeding edge Twitter bubble [3]. More about this below, but first my list of recommended React starter projects ... Disclaimer: From an individual developer's perspective, I am all-in with the framework/SSR agenda which the React team pushes in their new documentation. However, I feel like this recent announcement puts React beginners (from my educational perspective) and companies who want to adopt React (from my freelance perspective) in a bad position. Hence I want to give them more diverse options as escape hatch here. React with Vite Vite is the clear successor of create-react-app (CRA), because it does not much deviate from it.…