❄️ create-trifrost

The official project scaffolder for TriFrost — create blazing-fast apps in seconds.

TriFrost is a blazing-fast, runtime-agnostic server framework built for the modern JavaScript ecosystem — from low-latency edge environments to traditional backend infrastructure.

Whether you're deploying to Node.js, Bun, or Cloudflare Workers, TriFrost provides a unified API and internal architecture that adapts to the runtime — without compromising on performance, developer experience, or clarity.

🚀 Quick Start

Use this to instantly scaffold a new TriFrost-powered project:

# NPM
npm create trifrost@latest

# BUN
bun create trifrost@latest

✨ What It Does

create trifrost walks you through a beautiful guided CLI setup process, including:

• ✅ Naming your service
• ⚙️ Choosing a runtime (Bun, Node, or Cloudflare Workers)
• 🧩 Picking optional middlewares (CORS, Security, Cache, Rate Limit, ...)
• 💅 Adding CSS and/or TriFrost Atomic script support
• 📦 Setting up Podman if desired
• 📄 Generating a complete project structure and installable environment

🔐 Security Key Generation

In addition to scaffolding full apps, you can now generate secure JWT-ready secrets and keypairs:

npm create trifrost@latest

Then choose:

? What are we creating today?
  ❯ Security Keys (JWT/Cookie signing, etc)

Supported types:

• HS256, HS384, HS512 (HMAC with high-entropy base64 secrets)
• RS256, RS384, RS512 (RSA with 2048/4096-bit strength)
• ES256, ES384, ES512 (ECDSA with P-256 / P-384 / P-521 curves)

Secrets and keys are safely escaped and saved as .env-ready variables:

# HMAC
SECRET="kAoZfUj3gQxlI9A+Y..."

# RSA/ECDSA
PRIVATE_KEY="-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIIEvAIBADA..."
PUBLIC_KEY="-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBg..."

Add them to your .env file and you can load them at runtime via ctx.env.SECRET, ctx.env.PRIVATE_KEY, and ctx.env.PUBLIC_KEY, etc.

📦 Example Usage

npm create trifrost@latest

And follow the prompts:

? Where should we create your project? › my-trifrost-app
? Which runtime are you using? › Bun
? Enable CORS middleware? › yes
? Enable CSS reset? › yes
...

🔧 Requirements

Node If using wrangler or node you will need to have at least node 20 installed

Bun If using bun as a runtime you will need to have bun installed

Containerization When containerizing through the creation CLI you will need to have Podman and Podman Compose installed.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! If you have ideas for new runtimes, integrations, or starter kits, feel free to open an issue or PR.

👤 Author

Created and maintained by Peter Vermeulen and the TriFrost community