A Crash Course in Frontend Architecture & TanStack Start

TLDR; A fast-paced crash course that gets you up to speed with TanStack Start, what it is, why it exists, and how to use it, complemented by a deep dive into modern web rendering and architectural trade-offs. This workshop is a crash course in TanStack Start, designed for engineers who are curious about the framework, have been exploring it, or haven’t touched it yet, but want to understand what actually matters. In a single, high-intensity session, we’ll cover what TanStack Start is all about: its philosophy, core primitives, and how it fits into the broader TanStack ecosystem. You’ll build a real application and leave with a practical, working understanding of how to use Start effectively. Alongside this, the workshop is complemented by a focused exploration of modern frontend rendering strategies, SPAs, MPAs, CSR, SSR, streaming, and partial rendering. These concepts provide the architectural context needed to understand why TanStack Start makes the decisions it does, and how to evaluate it against frameworks like Next.js and Astro. The goal is twofold: to get you productive with TanStack Start quickly, and to give you the mental models required to make informed frontend architecture decisions, both with Start and beyond it.