What This Is
React is our primary frontend framework for building single-page applications, dashboards, and interactive interfaces. Every user-facing screen in our product suite — the SaaS dashboard, admin interfaces, billing management, and data visualisation — is built with React. It is the frontend counterpart to our Laravel backend.
Our own platform is a React 18 SPA with client-side routing (react-router-dom v6), three global context providers (user authentication, Pusher real-time, Stripe payment modal), themed light/dark mode switching, and dozens of data-dense views handling client management, project tracking, billing, and AI content delivery. We build React interfaces that handle real complexity, not demo-grade todo apps.
React’s strength is component composition — building complex interfaces from small, testable, reusable pieces. Combined with hooks for state management, context for shared data, and a vast ecosystem of quality libraries, React scales from simple forms to enterprise dashboards without architectural rewrites.
When You Need This
React is the right choice for interactive, data-rich frontend applications that go beyond what server-rendered pages can handle. Common scenarios:
- You are building a single-page application with client-side routing, authentication, and API-driven data
- Your application has complex, interactive interfaces — dashboards, data tables, form builders, or real-time updating views
- You need a consistent component library that can be shared across multiple views and maintained as the application grows
- The application requires real-time updates — WebSocket-driven UI changes, live notifications, or collaborative editing
- Your backend is a REST or GraphQL API and you need a frontend that consumes it as a separate application layer
How We Work
Our React development follows a component-first architecture. Pages are composed from smaller components, each responsible for a specific piece of UI. Components receive data through props, share state through context where needed, and manage local state with hooks. Side effects (API calls, subscriptions, timers) are handled in useEffect with proper cleanup.
Styling uses a layered approach — Tailwind CSS for utility-first layout and spacing, shadcn/ui for consistent, accessible component patterns, and Lucide React for iconography. Theme tokens (colours, fonts, radii) are defined as CSS custom properties with light and dark variants. This design system is shared across all our Beacon products.
Build and development uses Vite for fast hot module replacement during development and optimised production builds with code splitting. Routing is handled client-side with react-router-dom, with route-based code splitting for large applications. API communication uses fetch with consistent error handling and loading state management.
What You Get
- Single-page applications with client-side routing, authentication state, and API integration
- Component library — reusable, typed components with consistent styling and behaviour
- Dashboard interfaces — data tables, charts, filters, and drill-down views for complex data
- Real-time updates — Pusher or WebSocket integration for live-updating interfaces
- Theme support — light and dark mode with CSS custom property-based design tokens
- Responsive design — interfaces that work across desktop, tablet, and mobile viewports
- Accessibility — semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, and ARIA attributes following WAI-ARIA patterns
Technologies We Use
- React 18 — functional components, hooks, context, and concurrent features
- react-router-dom v6 — client-side routing with nested layouts and route-based code splitting
- Tailwind CSS — utility-first styling with custom design tokens
- shadcn/ui — accessible component patterns built on Radix primitives
- Lucide React — consistent iconography across the application
- Vite — development server and production build tooling
- Pusher — real-time event broadcasting for live UI updates
Related Systems
React frontends consume APIs built with Laravel. The same component patterns extend to React Native for mobile and Electron for desktop. React is written in JavaScript or TypeScript.
Talk to Us About React Development
If you need a single-page application, dashboard, or interactive interface built with React, get in touch and we will design the component architecture.
