Starters & Scaffolds

Official scaffolds

• ★ create-next-app — Next.js's official scaffold. App Router, Tailwind, TS by default.
• ★ create-t3-app — Next.js + tRPC + Drizzle/Prisma + Tailwind + Auth.js. Opinionated typesafe stack.
• create-vite — Vite's scaffold; many framework templates.
• create-astro — Astro's scaffold; Starlight, blog, basics.
• create-cloudflare — Cloudflare's npm create cloudflare@latest; Workers, Pages, full-stack templates.
• create-svelte — SvelteKit's scaffold.
• create-nuxt — Nuxt's scaffold.
• create-react-router — React Router 7 (framework mode).
• create-tanstack-app — TanStack Start scaffold.

Component / UI scaffolds

• ★ shadcn/ui templates — npx shadcn init + the various official templates (dashboard, music, cards).
• shadcn-vue / shadcn-svelte / shadcn-solid — ports for non-React.
• HeroUI starters, Mantine starters, Park UI starters.

Full-stack templates

• Vercel templates gallery — vercel.com/templates. Hundreds of one-click deploys.
• Cloudflare templates — templates.cloudflare.com — Workers + D1 + R2 patterns.
• launch.fast.io, saastemplate.com, shipfast.dev — paid SaaS boilerplates (controversial; mileage varies).
• Open SaaS (Wasp) — open-source SaaS starter.
• Supabase Examples, Convex Templates — official samples.

Specific-purpose

• Documentation: create-fumadocs-app, npm create astro@latest -- --template starlight, nextra template, vitepress template.
• API only: npm create hono@latest, create-elysia.
• AI app: Vercel AI SDK templates (chat, RAG, multi-modal).

Pick this if…

• Default Next.js app: create-next-app then add shadcn/ui.
• Want every typesafe default decided: create-t3-app.
• Cloudflare-native: npm create cloudflare@latest.
• Docs site: create-fumadocs-app (this site uses one).
• Edge API: npm create hono@latest.