Ship Your Next Great Web App in Record Time with create-cloudinary-react

Over the past year or two, we've been having a lot of conversations about the future of Cloudinary's Libraries and SDKs. The conversations have been wide-ranging: the future of front-end frameworks, coding, and AI. It's all been a bit dizzying, and hard to wrap our heads around. Late last year, my colleague Raya Straus brought us back down to earth with some good old-fashioned user research. By engaging users in conversations about their current day-to-day experiences, Raya got us to stop worrying about the future, and start thinking about ways we could make developers more successful with Cloudinary right now. We released the first fruit of Raya's research last month: Cloudinary's React Starter Kit. If you're building a green-field, media-focused React app, and you're using LLM-powered development tools, we think npx create-cloudinary-react is the best way to get started. Before we get into what it is, let's talk about how and why we built it. What We Learned From React SDK User Resea