The most popular stack for new launches

The stack new products actually ship, measured from 57,713 launches we crawled in the last 90 days. Each layer shows the most common choice and its share of those launches.

In short: React with Next.js, styled with Tailwind CSS and Lucide Icons, on Vercel behind Cloudflare, with Stripe for payments, Google Sign-In for auth, Resend for email, Google Analytics for analytics.

The default launch stack

Layer Most common % of all launches Also seen
Front-end framework React 34.5% Vue.js 2.0% · Svelte 1.2% · Capacitor 0.9%
Meta-framework Next.js 33.8% Astro 3.5% · Nuxt 0.9% · SvelteKit 0.7%
Build tool What bundles the front-end. A client-rendered SPA often shows only its build tool from the outside; the framework above it is compiled away. Vite 23.8%
CSS Tailwind CSS 49.1% Bootstrap 2.6% · UIkit 0.1% · Layui 0.1%
UI components Lucide Icons 32.6% shadcn/ui 18.7% · Chakra UI 0.0% · Flowbite 0.0%
Hosting Vercel 29.1% Netlify 4.0% · GitHub Pages 3.9% · Render 2.1%
CDN Cloudflare 47.8% Fastly 5.9% · AWS CloudFront 2.1% · Bunny CDN 0.5%
Backend / BaaS The closest we can see to a data layer. Most databases are invisible from outside. Firebase 4.1% Supabase 2.9% · Convex 0.1% · Neon 0.0%
Auth Google Sign-In 4.0% Clerk 2.1% · Auth.js 2.1% · Google Identity Platform 0.4%
Payments Stripe 4.4% Razorpay 0.9% · Paddle 0.9% · PayPal 0.5%
Email Resend 18.7% Amazon SES 3.2% · Brevo 3.2% · SendGrid 2.4%
Analytics Google Analytics 38.2% Vercel Analytics 8.2% · Cloudflare Web Analytics 7.3% · PostHog 7.3%

What we can't see. Databases, ORMs, the language (TypeScript compiles to JavaScript) and most server frameworks run server-side or are compiled away, so they're invisible to an external crawl. We'd rather say so than guess. Where a server framework is detectable, the leaders are Express (1.83%), Laravel (1.01%), ASP.NET (0.42%), Rails (0.28%).

How they combine

The framework-and-host pairings, among the 13,861 launches where we identified both (24.02% of crawled launches). Next.js on Vercel dominates, so the rest is a long tail.

Framework Host Launches % of pairs
Next.js Vercel 11,347 81.86%
Next.js Railway 440 3.17%
Next.js Netlify 383 2.76%
Astro Vercel 323 2.33%
Next.js Render 138 1.00%
Next.js DigitalOcean App Platform 94 0.68%
Capacitor Vercel 92 0.66%
Astro GitHub Pages 78 0.56%
Other combinations (80 stacks) 966 6.97%

How we count. Each launch is taken at its most recent scheduled crawl, over the last 90 days. Shares are the percentage of all crawled launches that show each technology, so they're comparable across layers and honest about sparse ones. Figures cover only launches we could crawl and fingerprint. See the methodology for detail.