create-templately

Scaffold a new app from Templately — a backend-free React + TypeScript + Tailwind admin UI template (catalog, cards, data table, filters, export, themeable design tokens, PWA — all driven by in-memory mock data).

Usage

# Bun (drops the create- prefix)
bun create templately my-app

# npm
npm create templately@latest my-app

# pnpm / yarn / npx
pnpm create templately my-app
bunx create-templately my-app

With no directory argument the CLI prompts for one. Then:

cd my-app
bun install
bun run dev

How it works

The template lives in the parent repo; scripts/snapshot.js copies it into template/ (excluding node_modules, dist, the scaffolder itself, etc.) and the CLI (index.js) copies that into your target directory, restores .gitignore (npm strips it from tarballs, so it ships as gitignore), and sets the new project's package.json name. The snapshot runs automatically on publish via the prepack script.

Publishing (maintainers)

This is a public, free npm package — no paid plan required.

cd create-templately
npm login                      # one time
npm publish --access public    # prepack regenerates template/ first

Bump version in package.json for each release and publish again. To preview the exact tarball contents without publishing:

npm run snapshot   # regenerate template/
npm pack --dry-run # list files that would ship

Roadmap

The commented block in index.js marks where the interactive theme palette prompt will go — it will rewrite src/theme/colors.css based on the chosen brand color at install time.