--- title: "Using Bryntum Gantt frontend with Starhive backend-as-a-service" description: "Learn how to integrate Bryntum Gantt with Starhive backend to create a custom and extendable Gantt application in React." url: https://starhive.com/blog/bryntum-gantt-starhive-backend-as-a-service --- # Using Bryntum Gantt frontend with Starhive backend-as-a-service Learn how to integrate Bryntum Gantt with Starhive backend to create a custom and extendable Gantt application in React. [Charlotte Nicolaou PhD](https://starhive.com/blog/author/charlotte-nicolaou)03/06/2025 · 2 min read Build vs buy has always been a debate. But in more recent years, a third option has emerged: blend. Where teams take third-party tools and customise and extend them for their own unique needs. According to [Gartner](https://www.gartner.com/document-reader/document/6181055?ref=solrAll&refval=471273505), CIOs are now spending 28% of their software budget on blended applications. Here we will explore using Starhive and Bryntum to create a custom Gantt application in React that can be extended to your needs. Jump straight to the tutorial ↓ ### Who are Bryntum? [Bryntum](https://bryntum.com/) provides UI components and tools for developers to help them create custom applications for product management and resource scheduling faster. Their portfolio of components includes schedulers, Kanban boards, calendars, and Gantt charts, which we will focus on here. These components can be integrated into any web app, whether plain JS, React, Vue, or Angular. ### Why Bryntum and Starhive? With Bryntum’s feature-rich [Gantt](https://bryntum.com/products/gantt/) chart component, you need somewhere to store all the tasks, dependencies, and assignments. Enter Starhive, which can be used as a backend and connected to the Gantt chart, eliminating the need to create a backend from scratch. With extra capabilities like automations, email notifications, and reporting dashboards, you can choose whether to use these off-the-shelf or create your own capabilities. ### Getting started with Bryntum Gantt and Starhive Our friends over at Bryntum have a full step-by-step guide on their site on how to setup the two tools and connect everything together. You can start free trials of both Starhive (30 days) and Bryntum (45 days) so you can try the two together at no cost. Follow the step-by-step instructions on setting up Bryntum's Gantt chart component with Starhive. [Get started](https://bryntum.com/blog/starhive-as-backend-for-bryntum-gantt/) Their guide will walk you through creating the Gantt component, populating Starhive with the Gantt template data, connecting the two, and setting up the two endpoints required to populate, create, update, and delete data.  Next steps Once you have the system set up, you can start customising and extending both the Starhive and Bryntum sides to create Gantt chart application that works for you and your organisation or expand what you’ve learnt into new areas. If you need a hand you can use Bryntum’s [community forums](https://forum.bryntum.com/) or [contact us](mailto:help@starhive.com) at Starhive. ![Charlotte Nicolaou PhD](https://starhive.com/images/blog/authors/charlotte-1.webp) About the author Charlotte Nicolaou PhD Charlotte is a technical marketer at Starhive with many years of experience in asset management and database configuration. She has previously worked at Atlassian and Sinch and takes joy in simplifying technical concepts to something easier to digest. [Read more by Charlotte Nicolaou PhD](https://starhive.com/blog/author/charlotte-nicolaou) Share this post Blog first published on 03/06/2025, last updated on 19/12/2025. ## Related blog articles [Visit the blog](https://starhive.com/blog) - [![citizen developer](https://starhive.com/images/blog/9-steps-to-becoming-a-citizen-developer/woman-1851464-1280.webp) App building ### The 9 steps to becoming a citizen developer So you’re interested in becoming a citizen developer and building apps with no-code or... 10 min read](https://starhive.com/blog/9-steps-to-becoming-a-citizen-developer) - [Starhive Academy ### Starhive Academy | Database Starhive Academy > part 1 - adding data to Starhive The foundation of anything you wish... 2 min read](https://starhive.com/blog/getting-started-with-starhive-database) - [![Fish farms, like the ones Remora Robotics helps keep clean with their robots, taken from above.](https://starhive.com/images/blog/remora-robotics-centralises-it-asset-tracking/remora-robitics-cover-image-05.webp) IT Asset Management (ITAM) ### Remora Robotics uses Starhive for ITAM to optimise budget spend 3 min read](https://starhive.com/blog/remora-robotics-centralises-it-asset-tracking)