🍺 brewcli

The Ultimate Project Scaffolder — Brew a fresh project in seconds.

brewcli is a beautiful, interactive CLI tool that scaffolds production-ready projects across the Node.js ecosystem. Pick your platform, language, and framework — and let brew handle the rest.

No more copying boilerplate. No more wiring configs by hand. Just brew it.

Why brewcli?

Setting up a new project should take seconds, not hours. brewcli gives you a single command to scaffold fully configured projects across 10+ frameworks, with support for both JavaScript and TypeScript out of the box. It wraps official CLIs (Next.js, Angular, NestJS, Expo, etc.) and ships battle-tested templates for Express and Fastify — so you always get the canonical project structure, not a random skeleton.

Supported Frameworks

| Framework | JavaScript | TypeScript | | ----------------- | :--------: | :--------: | | Express | ✅ | ✅ | | Fastify | ✅ | ✅ | | NestJS | ✅ | ✅ | | React (Vite) | ✅ | ✅ | | Next.js | ✅ | ✅ | | Vue.js (Vite) | ✅ | ✅ | | Angular | ✅ | ✅ | | React Native CLI | — | ✅ | | React Native Expo | ✅ | ✅ |

Quick Start

Install globally

npm install -g brewcli

Scaffold a project

create-brew-app my-app

Or just run it directly without installing:

npx brewcli my-app

You can also run it without a project name — brew will prompt you for one:

create-brew-app

How It Works

brewcli walks you through an interactive flow right in your terminal:

1.  Choose your platform     →  Node.js (more coming soon)
2.  Pick a language           →  JavaScript or TypeScript
3.  Select a framework        →  Express, Next.js, React, etc.
4.  Name your project         →  (if not passed as an argument)
5.  Sit back                  →  brew scaffolds everything for you

Once complete, you'll see the CHEERS screen with your project path and next steps.

What brew does under the hood

For Express and Fastify, brew copies from its own curated templates — pre-configured with sensible defaults so you can start coding immediately.

For everything else (Next.js, React, Vue, Angular, NestJS, Expo, React Native CLI), brew delegates to the official framework CLI with optimal flags — skip-install, skip-git, correct language template — then applies finishing touches like standardizing package.json fields and initializing a clean git repo.

Example

$ create-brew-app my-app

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  ⚡ The Ultimate Project Scaffolder for 2026

  ➜  Choose your platform:
     ❯ Node.js
       Other Framework

  ➜  Select language for node:
     ❯ TypeScript
       JavaScript

  ➜  Which framework or library do you want to use?
       Express
     ❯ Fastify
       NestJS
       ...

  ✨ Brewing complete! Your project is served hot.

  🚀 NEXT STEPS:
     1. cd my-app
     2. npm install
     3. npm run dev

  Happy Coding! May your brew never turn cold. 🍺

Requirements

• Node.js v18 or later
• npm v8 or later
• git (optional, for auto-initializing repos)

Roadmap

• 🔜 Python (Flask, FastAPI, Django)
• 🔜 Go (Gin, Fiber)
• 🔜 Rust (Actix, Axum)
• 🔜 Custom template support
• 🔜 Plugin system for post-scaffold hooks

More platforms and frameworks are actively being added. Contributions and suggestions are welcome!

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you'd like to add a framework, fix a bug, or improve the templates:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feat/add-django-support)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'feat: add Django scaffolding')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feat/add-django-support)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

MIT © Harsh Mer · Keval Tank