A new ecosystem of apps is emerging inside generalist conversational agents like ChatGPT and Claude. These apps serve as a direct digital storefront for brands. They serve as a compelling alternative to traditional mobile and web applications for the billion users who now begin their online journey in a chat.
AI apps are built on standards like Apps SDK, MCP Apps, and MCP UI. They all rely on MCP as the underlying protocol to expose context and tools, while adding a human-facing presentation layer in the form of UI widgets.
Building these React apps introduces a genuinely new set of challenges: you're no longer designing for a user interacting with a UI alone, but for a three-way dynamic between a human, a UI, and a model. Every interaction must account for whether it originates from a click on a widget or a message typed in the chat.
Skybridge is the full-stack TypeScript framework built on React that we created at Alpic to help developers around the world ship these new apps at the speed of light.
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