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# Overview

Bridge provides SDKs for running patient eligibility checks in your app or on the server.

Choose the guide for your stack:

#### [React](/documentation/getting-started/eligibility-sdk/react/installation)

`@usebridge/sdk-react`

#### [TypeScript](/documentation/getting-started/eligibility-sdk/typescript/installation)

`@usebridge/sdk`

## Features

* **Soft and Hard Checks**: Policy and ServiceEligibility lifecycles in a single entry point
* **Advanced options**: Optional session settings for less common integration needs
* **Payer Search**: Autocomplete, caching, and optimized pre-population
* **Best practices**: Failures, retries, and conversion optimizations built in

## Choose your SDK

* **React app**: `@usebridge/sdk-react` hooks for form state and sessions
* **Backend or API route**: `@usebridge/sdk` for single-call eligibility checks

## Demo projects

* [react-demo](https://github.com/use-bridge/sdk-typescript/tree/main/examples/react-demo): full Next.js demo app
* [node](https://github.com/use-bridge/sdk-typescript/tree/main/examples/node): interactive CLI demo

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#### [Soft Check](./soft-check)

What a soft check returns

#### [Hard Check](./hard-check)

Full eligibility checks, cost estimates, and provider eligibility