🚀 scaffold-node-cli

The ultimate interactive CLI for scaffolding modern Node.js backend projects — with your favorite language, database, and ORM.
Choose TypeScript or JavaScript, MongoDB or PostgreSQL, Prisma or Drizzle — and get a full, ready-to-run starter project instantly.

✨ Features

• 🧠 Interactive setup — answer a few questions and get a full backend ready
• ⚙️ Language support → TypeScript or JavaScript
• 🧩 Frameworks → Express or Fastify
• 🗃️ Databases → MongoDB (with Mongoose) or PostgreSQL (with Prisma/Drizzle)
• 🧱 Prebuilt starter templates — instantly clones public repos for each stack
• 🧑‍💻 CRUD demo included — every project starts with a simple working API
• 🐳 Optional Docker setup for instant containerization
• 🧰 Git initialization + first commit
• 🎨 Pretty logs & spinners for a smooth experience

📦 Installation

Use NPX (recommended):

npx scaffold-node-cli

Or install globally:

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npm install -g scaffold-node-cli

Then run:

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scaffold-node-cli

🧠 How It Works The CLI will guide you through a short setup:

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? Project name: my-awesome-api
? Choose language: TypeScript
? Choose framework: Express
? Choose database: PostgreSQL
? Choose ORM: Prisma
? Add extras: Docker setup, JWT Auth, Initialize Git repo

Then it automatically:

Clones a matching public GitHub starter template

Cleans the .git folder (fresh start)

Installs dependencies

Optionally adds Docker & .env setup

Initializes Git

Prints next-step instructions 🎉

🧩 Supported Templates Stack Template Source TypeScript + Express + Prisma LuchoBazz/express-ts-rest-starter-kit TypeScript + Express + Mongoose ahmadjoya/typescript-express-mongoose-starter TypeScript + Express + Drizzle bitxon/ts-node-express-drizzle JavaScript + Express + Mongoose RickBr0wn/express-mongoose-template TypeScript + Fastify + Prisma hmake98/fastify-typescript

🧱 Example Usage

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$ npx scaffold-node-cli

Example session:

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? Project name: user-api
? Choose language: TypeScript
? Choose framework: Express
? Choose database: MongoDB
? Add extras: Docker setup, Initialize Git

✨ Output:

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✅ Cloning template...
✅ Installing dependencies...
✅ Setting up environment...
🎉 Project 'user-api' created successfully!

Next steps:
  cd user-api
  npm run dev
🐳 Optional Docker Setup
If you enable Docker support, the CLI automatically adds a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml.

Run your app in a container:

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docker compose up
🧰 Commands Reference
Command Description
npx scaffold-node-cli # Start interactive project setup
npm run dev # Start the local dev server
npm run build # Build for production (TypeScript only)

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