# microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter

A starter template for TypeScript and React with a detailed README describing how to use the two together.

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/typescript-react-starter
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-08-23T00:06:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3403, "days_push": 2568, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11030, forks 1199 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:45.918210+00:00)

## What it is
A starter template and tutorial from Microsoft showing how to set up a React project with TypeScript, including linting, testing with Jest/Enzyme, and Redux state management. The repository is now deprecated because TypeScript support has become a default feature of Create React App, Next.js, and Razzle.

## Use cases
- set up a React project with TypeScript
- learn how to use TypeScript and React together
- scaffold a React app with Redux and Jest configured
- find a quick start guide for typed React development
- configure TSLint with a React TypeScript project

## When to choose
- you want a guided walkthrough of wiring TypeScript into a React toolchain
- you need a historical reference for react-scripts-ts setups
- you want curated links to React+TypeScript learning resources

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - use create-react-app, Next.js, or Vite with built-in TypeScript support instead
- you need an actively maintained template
- you want modern tooling like Vite or current React patterns

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: boilerplate, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, tutorials
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: typescript, react, starter-template, deprecated, create-react-app, redux, scaffolding, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:45.918210+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:17:12.256296+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:45.918210+00:00, sha 21be49ed9105)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.