🚀 create-reactgo-app

A powerful CLI to bootstrap a fullstack React + Go application in seconds.

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✨ Overview

create-reactgo-app helps you skip repetitive setup and instantly generate a production-ready project structure with: • ⚛️ React frontend • 🐹 Go backend • 📁 Clean project structure • ⚡ Ready-to-run setup

No more manual boilerplate — just one command and you’re ready to build.

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📦 Installation

You don’t need to install anything globally.

Run directly using:

npx create-reactgo-app

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⚡ Usage

Create a new project

npx create-reactgo-app my-app

Or use current directory

npx create-reactgo-app .

📁 Project Structure

my-app/
├── backend/        # Go server
├── frontend/       # React app
├── .gitignore
└── README.md

🧠 How It Works

1. Prompts for a project name
2. Creates a directory (or uses current one)
3. Copies a prebuilt template
4. Sets up your fullstack environment

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🛠️ Features

• ✅ Interactive CLI prompts
• ✅ Smart directory handling (. support)
• ✅ Fast and minimal setup
• ✅ Cross-platform support

🚀 Getting Started

After creating your project:

cd my-app

Start backend

cd backend
go run main.go

Start frontend

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a new branch
3. Make your changes
4. Submit a PR

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

🤔 Why This Exists

Setting up a fullstack project with React + Go sounds simple… until you actually do it.

You start with an idea, open your terminal, and then:

• Create separate folders for frontend and backend
• Initialize React manually
• Set up a Go server from scratch
• Configure routing, ports, and structure
• Add .gitignore, scripts, and basic boilerplate

By the time you’re done, you’ve spent 30–60 minutes… and written almost no actual product code.

⚠️ The Real Problem

The issue isn’t complexity — it’s repetition.

Every project starts the same way:

• same folder structure
• same setup steps
• same boilerplate

Yet we keep doing it manually, over and over again.

💡 The Idea

create-reactgo-app was built to eliminate that friction.

Instead of wasting time on setup, you should be able to:

Run one command and start building immediately.

🚀 The Solution

This CLI automates the entire setup process:

• Instantly scaffolds a fullstack project
• Provides a clean, scalable structure
• Removes repetitive boilerplate work
• Lets you focus on what actually matters — building your idea

This is just the beginning.

The long-term goal is to evolve this into a developer-friendly toolkit that:

• speeds up fullstack development
• enforces good structure by default
• helps developers ship faster with confidence

Built with ❤️ by Akdev