At BearStudio, React is the foundation everything else is built on. We’ve been working with it for years, and over time we’ve shaped an entire ecosystem around it: Start UI, Ficus UI, internal tools, client projects. It’s the technology our team knows best, and the one we keep betting on.
What keeps us on React is the component model. Breaking an interface into small, reusable pieces that you can compose, test, and maintain independently — that approach scales well, whether it’s a two-page app or a large platform. We write functional components with hooks, TypeScript everywhere, and we lean on the TanStack ecosystem for routing, data fetching, and server-side rendering.
Over the years, we’ve built strong opinions about how to use React well. Those opinions are baked into Start UI, our open-source starter that ships with authentication, form handling, and a full component library. It’s how we avoid reinventing the wheel on every project and focus on what actually matters to the client.
