🚀 create-mern-fs-app

A zero-setup CLI tool to scaffold a fullstack app using Vite (React) + Express + MongoDB in seconds.
Perfect for building modern fullstack web apps with organized client and server folders.

✨ Features

• 📦 Instant project structure with client and server directories
• ⚡️ React + Vite frontend setup
• 🌐 Express backend with MongoDB boilerplate
• 🗂 Includes folders like models, schema, and .env placeholder
• 📁 Copies template files using fs-extra for clean bootstrapping
• 🛠 Installs dependencies for both frontend and backend automatically
• 💡 Beginner-friendly and easy to extend

📦 Installation

Using npx (no installation required):

npx create-mern-fs-app myapp

Or install globally:

npm install -g create-mern-fs-app

🧰 Usage

create-mern-fs-app myapp

You’ll be prompted to enter a project name (default: myapp).

This will:

1. Copy boilerplate files into a new folder called myapp
2. Install dependencies in client/ and server/
3. Set you up with a ready-to-code fullstack app

🚦 Project Structure

myapp/
├── client/           # Frontend (Vite + React)
│   ├── src/
│   └── vite.config.js
├── server/           # Backend (Express + MongoDB)
│   ├── index.js
│   ├── models/
│   └── .env

🏃‍♂️ Getting Started

After the scaffold is complete:

cd myapp

# Start the frontend
cd client
npm run dev

# Start the backend
cd ../server
npm run start

🧑‍💻 Author

Created by Vaibhav Tiwari
📬 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaibhav-tiwari-41267a227 | GitHub: https://github.com/Vaibhav-stack31

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.