We use Cursor with Claude daily, and also the newer Claude Code CLI. These tools help us refactor, debug, and write code faster, with AI handling more of the repetitive parts.

React has an advantage here: there’s simply more public React code for AI models to learn from. With more training, models like Claude perform better, offering more accurate suggestions and clearer explanations.

We’ve added Relume and Webflow to our design-to-code process. Relume helps us generate layout structures and components quickly, while Webflow lets us design visually and export code through DevLink.

Both tools export to React. Using React means we can continue development without having to translate it into another framework.

Across the AI coding community, React is often paired with Tailwind CSS and shadcn. Tailwind provides utility first classes for fast, consistent styling, while shadcn offers ready-made interactive components that can be added to an existing React project.

As more teams and tools standardize around this stack, building familiarity with it feels like a practical step forward.

Svelte remains, in most ways, the more elegant framework. Its syntax is cleaner, its output smaller, and its developer experience more enjoyable. For completely hand-coded projects, it’s still our favorite.

But for production work involving AI tools and design-to-code processes, React lets us move faster and stay in line with current industry trends.

React works better with our tools. It’s faster to build with and aligns with where we see the AI-connected frontend ecosystem heading. As a result, it has returned to our framework of choice for most projects.