create-rudder

Spin up a production-ready Rudder app in under 60 seconds — pick a recipe, the installer handles deps, database, auth views, and git init for you.

pnpm create rudder my-app
cd my-app && pnpm dev
# → http://localhost:3000 — welcome page + register/login working end-to-end

The installer asks four to six questions, then runs pnpm install, generates the Prisma client, pushes the schema (for SQLite) or asks first (for Postgres/MySQL), publishes auth views, generates Passport keys (when selected), and initializes git — all in one shot.

Install

All four major package managers work. The installer detects which one you used and adapts every generated file, install command, and post-scaffold hint.

pnpm create rudder [name]
npm create rudder@latest [name]
yarn create rudder [name]
bunx create-rudder [name]

Skip [name] to be prompted for one.

The legacy create-rudder-app invocation (pnpm create rudder-app …) still works — it now prints a one-line nudge to switch to create-rudder and otherwise scaffolds identically.

Full documentation

The detailed scaffolder docs — recipe table, prompt-by-prompt walkthrough, generated structure, non-interactive (CI/AI agent) flag list, after-scaffold cascade — live with the framework guide:

• Installation guide: https://github.com/rudderjs/rudder/blob/main/docs/guide/installation.md
• Main framework: https://github.com/rudderjs/rudder
• Report issues: https://github.com/rudderjs/rudder/issues

Contributing to the scaffolder

The scaffolder source lives at create-rudder/ in the framework monorepo (the create-rudder-app package is a thin stub that re-spawns this one):

git clone https://github.com/rudderjs/rudder.git
cd rudder/create-rudder
pnpm install
pnpm build
node dist/index.js                              # launches the interactive CLI from source
pnpm test                                       # template tests + snapshot baseline
pnpm smoke                                      # default end-to-end smoke

License

MIT © Suleiman Shahbari