ant-design-pro vs react-starter-kit
Two of the top projects in SaaS boilerplates, side by side: who leads on each score part and who each one suits, then setup, license, activity and what each review found.
ant-design-pro
React admin dashboard template built on Ant Design 6 and Umi Max
react-starter-kit
Full-stack SaaS monorepo template on React 19, tRPC and Cloudflare Workers
Verdict
ant-design-pro ranks higher, 68 to 57. Of the 5 score parts we measure for both, ant-design-pro leads on 2, react-starter-kit on 1 and 2 are even.
- Adoptionant-design-pro leads by 25 points, 88 to 63: a wide gap.
- Freshnessant-design-pro leads by 30 points, 100 to 70: a wide gap.
- Maintenancereact-starter-kit leads by 2 points, 60 to 58: close to even.
- Easy to runEven at 33.
- Agent-readyEven at 85.
Pick ant-design-pro if you are
React teams building enterprise admin UIs on Ant Design
- Includes dashboard, form, list, profile, account and result page templates
- Built-in i18n, mock development setup, and unit and e2e tests
Pick react-starter-kit if you are
TypeScript teams building a SaaS on Cloudflare's edge
- Auth, organizations and Stripe billing are already wired in
- One TypeScript type contract from Drizzle schema through tRPC to the React UI
| What we compare | ant-design-pro | react-starter-kit |
|---|---|---|
| Score parts, out of 100 | ||
| Adoption | 88, widely used | 63, popular |
| Freshness | 100, active | 70, recent |
| Maintenance | 58, fair | 60, fair |
| Easy to run | 33, some setup | 33, some setup |
| Agent-ready | 85, ready | 85, ready |
| Facts from GitHub and the README | ||
| Stars | 38.9k | 23.7k |
| License | MIT (permissive) | MIT (permissive) |
| Last commit | Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Last release | Aug 2026 | Aug 2015 |
| Language | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| Docker | No | No |
| GPU | Not needed | Not needed |
| arm64 or Apple Silicon | Not stated | Not stated |
ant-design-pro
Ant Design Pro is a React 19 and TypeScript boilerplate for enterprise back-office apps, built on Umi Max 4 and antd 6. It ships ready-made pages for dashboards, forms, lists, profiles, account settings, login and error screens, plus i18n, mock data and unit and e2e tests. A built-in AI chatbot page uses Ant Design X, and an `npm run simple` script strips the template down to a minimal version.
Who it is for: React teams building enterprise admin UIs on Ant Design
Strengths
- Includes dashboard, form, list, profile, account and result page templates
- Built-in i18n, mock development setup, and unit and e2e tests
- Ships Claude Code skills for upgrading the template and querying antd APIs
- TypeScript with Tailwind CSS v4 and antd-style theming
Weaknesses
- AI support is a single chatbot page; no model backend is described
- `npm run simple` permanently deletes files and cannot be undone
- Tied to the Umi Max and antd stack; no other frameworks
- No Docker or compose setup mentioned in the README
- TypeScript
- GitHub template
react-starter-kit
A GitHub template for SaaS apps split into three Cloudflare Workers (Astro marketing site, React 19 SPA, Hono and tRPC API) joined by service bindings. Better Auth handles email OTP, passkeys, Google OAuth and organizations, with optional Stripe subscriptions. Drizzle ORM talks to Neon PostgreSQL through Hyperdrive, provisioned with Terraform.
Who it is for: TypeScript teams building a SaaS on Cloudflare's edge
Strengths
- Auth, organizations and Stripe billing are already wired in
- One TypeScript type contract from Drizzle schema through tRPC to the React UI
- Separate migrate and deploy scripts for staging and production, same script in CI
- A merge-seed skill pulls upstream template changes into your project
Weaknesses
- Tied to Cloudflare Workers, Neon PostgreSQL and Hyperdrive; no alternative runtime documented
- Requires Bun 1.4+ instead of Node.js and npm
- README describes no built-in AI features; they must be added yourself
- Email OTP sign-in needs a verified Resend domain for users other than you
- TypeScript
- Needs Cloudflare Workers, Neon PostgreSQL, Bun, Resend, Stripe (optional), Terraform
- GitHub template
- ⚠️ .env file committed
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