create-stackbase

Interactive CLI that scaffolds a new fullstack project from Stackbase — a production-ready Fastify 5 + Next.js 16 / React 19 boilerplate. No install needed, run it with npx.

npx create-stackbase my-app
cd my-app
npm install
npm run dev

An interactive wizard asks what you need, then generates a project containing only the selected pieces — no dead code, no commented-out routes, no stripping things out by hand afterward.

What you get

• Backend — Fastify 5, TypeScript, Drizzle ORM (or Prisma), Better Auth, Postgres, fully schema-typed routes with auto-generated OpenAPI docs
• Frontend — Next.js 16 App Router, React 19, TanStack Query, Redux Toolkit, shadcn/ui, Tailwind
• Auth & roles — Better Auth wired end-to-end, with a customizable role list (not locked to admin/user)
• Typed API client — backend route schemas generate the frontend's API client automatically; no hand-written fetch calls or duplicated types
• AI coding assistant rules — optional architecture guardrails generated for Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Antigravity, so agentic tools follow your project's conventions instead of guessing

The wizard

Run npx create-stackbase [project-name] and answer a short set of prompts:

| Prompt | Options | |---|---| | Package manager | pnpm / npm / yarn | | Include backend? | yes / no | | Include frontend? | yes / no | | Auth module | Better Auth (full) / skip | | Roles | free-text comma-separated list + pick the admin role | | State management | Redux Toolkit / skip | | Database | Postgres + Drizzle / Postgres + Prisma / skip | | AI coding tools | Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Antigravity (any combination) | | Git init | yes / no | | Install dependencies now | yes / no |

At least one of backend/frontend is required. Everything else is optional and shapes exactly what gets copied into your new project.

Usage

# scaffold into ./my-app, name prompted if omitted
npx create-stackbase my-app

# or via npm's create shorthand
npm create stackbase@latest my-app

Links

• Full CLI internals, manifest reference, and extension guide: WIKI.md
• Source repository: github.com/MonsterTechnoGits/Stackbase
• Issues / feature requests: GitHub Issues

License

ISC — Suman Dey