create-shipkit

Scaffold the Skippie hackathon starter — Next 16 + Elysia + Better Auth + Drizzle/Postgres with a Project CRUD reference domain (server-driven data-table + TanStack Form).

Usage

npx create-shipkit my-app
# or
npm  create shipkit my-app
# or
pnpm create shipkit my-app

Then:

cd my-app
pnpm install
cp .env.example .env   # set DATABASE_URL, BETTER_AUTH_SECRET, NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL
pnpm db:migrate
pnpm dev

BETTER_AUTH_SECRET: openssl rand -base64 32. DATABASE_URL: any Postgres (Supabase, Neon, local).

What it does

• Shallow-clones the template repo (git clone --depth 1).
• Strips the scaffolder + internal docs (cli/, docs/superpowers/); keeps docs/code-review/ conventions.
• Renames the project in package.json.
• Re-initializes git with a fresh initial commit.

Requires git and Node ≥ 18. Zero runtime dependencies (instant npx).

Publishing (maintainer)

cd cli/create-shipkit
npm login
npm publish --access public

The npm package name is create-shipkit, which is what enables npm create shipkit / npx create-shipkit. Bump version in package.json before each publish.