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title: "React Development Services | Contrive Solutions"
description: "React development for SaaS products, dashboards and React Native apps, with Node.js or Laravel back ends. See Kanban Zone and vPeer."
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 - react development
canonical_url: "https://contrivesol.com/web-development/react/"
date_published: "2026-10-22"
date_modified: "2026-10-22"
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author: Contrive Solutions
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# React Development

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces out of reusable components. We use it for SaaS front ends, dashboards and, through React Native, mobile apps, usually paired with a Node.js or Laravel back end.


## Projects


**Kanban Zone** is a visual process management tool built on the MERN stack. The front end is React with Redux, with Redux-Saga handling async work such as saving board changes and loading data, on a Node.js and Express back end. [Read the case study](/kanbanzone/).


**vPeer** is a peer-to-peer mentoring platform that started in the education market. React with Redux on the front end, Laravel and MongoDB behind it. [Read the case study](/vpeer/).


Want MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js from one team? See [MERN stack development](/web-development/mern/). Comparing frameworks? See [front-end development](/web-development/front-end/).


## Frequently asked questions


### Is React a good choice for a SaaS product?


Usually, yes. React handles the interactive, data-heavy screens SaaS products are made of, such as boards, tables and filters, and it has the largest pool of developers to hire later. Kanban Zone, a SaaS tool we built, uses React with Redux for exactly this kind of interface.


### React or Next.js?


Next.js is a framework built on React. Use it when pages need to be indexed by search engines or load fast on first visit, such as marketing pages, docs and stores. A logged-in dashboard that nobody needs to find through Google can stay a plain React single-page app.


### Can you take over an existing React codebase?


Yes. We start with a short audit of dependencies, state management, tests and build setup, then fix what blocks day-to-day work first. Outdated packages and missing tests are the usual problems, and we upgrade them in small steps rather than a rewrite.


### Do you build mobile apps with React Native?


Yes. React Native lets one codebase ship to iOS and Android, and it can share logic with a React web app. We also build native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) apps when a project needs them. See [mobile app development](/mobile-app-development/).


### How do you manage state in a large React app?


It depends on the app. Kanban Zone and vPeer use Redux, with Redux-Saga for async flows on Kanban Zone. For newer projects, server data often lives in a query cache and only true client state goes into a store, which keeps the code smaller.