create-chassis

Scaffold a Chassis backend — a lightweight, decorator-driven Express + TypeScript starter.

npm create chassis my-api

The CLI asks which modules you want — MongoDB, Auth0, Sentry, Docker — and generates a project containing only what you chose. Zero dependencies, works with Node 20+.

Flags:

• --yes / -y — skip prompts, include everything (also the default when stdin is not a TTY).

For development of the CLI itself, point it at a local template checkout:

CHASSIS_TEMPLATE=/path/to/chassis node index.mjs /tmp/test-app --yes