--- title: "A fresh (TanStack) start for 2025" publication: "React Status" issue: 412 published_at: "2025-01-08" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/412" --- Plus a look at the React projects that gained the most stars in 2024. | #​412 — January 8, 2025 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/412) Together with [![Clerk\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_220,h_64/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:5/j3vhv1hnwqeffgkzzlvu.png)](https://go.clerk.com/IZjax7R) React Status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/esoa0tg6rf8asiv0lnjz.jpg)](https://frontendmasters.com/blog/introducing-tanstack-start/) [Introducing TanStack Start](https://frontendmasters.com/blog/introducing-tanstack-start/) — Imagine if the folks behind [TanStack](https://tanstack.com/) Router, Query, etc. realized they had all the pieces to create a full-stack React framework: that’s _[TanStack Start](https://tanstack.com/start/latest)_. 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