create-mern-boiler-app

A MERN stack boilerplate generator to quickly scaffold a full-stack project with MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js.
It sets up the project structure, installs dependencies, configures API routes, frontend routing, and developer tools so you can focus on building features instead of repetitive setup. 🚀

👨‍💻 Author

Nikhil Tiwari

🙏 Mentor / Guidance

Debasish Sahoo

✨ Features

• ⚡ One-command project scaffolding
• 🗂️ Pre-configured backend (Express + MongoDB with Mongoose)
• 🎨 Ready-to-use React frontend with routing
• 📦 Clean & modular folder structure for API + frontend
• 🔧 Developer tools: ESLint, Prettier, Nodemon, Concurrently
• 🌍 Environment-based configuration with .env
• 🔌 Optional Tailwind CSS & Socket.IO setup
• ✅ Production-ready build scripts

📦 Installation & Usage

Install via npm:

npx create-mern-boiler-app

You’ll be guided with prompts:

🚀 Welcome to Create MERN App

? Project name: <your_project_name> 
? Choose language: 
❯ TypeScript
  JavaScript
? Include Tailwind CSS (frontend)? (y/N)
? Include Socket.io? (y/N)
⠼ Installing dependencies... (this may take a while)
✔ Project setup complete! 🎉

Next steps:

  cd my-mern-app
  cd frontend && npm run dev
  cd backend && npm run dev

Frontend: http://localhost:5173 Backend: http://localhost:4000

🏗️ Project Structure

my-mern-app/
├── backend/        # Express + MongoDB backend
│   ├── configs/
│   ├── middleware/
│   ├──models/
│   ├── routes/
│   ├── utils/
│   ├──app.js
│   └── server.js
│
├── frontend/       # React frontend
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── components/
│   │   ├── pages/
│   │   ├── routes/
│   │   ├── services/
│   │   └── App.jsx
│   │   ├── index.css/
│   │   ├── main.jsx/
│   └── package.json
│
├── .gitignore 
└── README.md

License

MIT © 2025 Nikhil Tiwari