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Top 12 JavaScript Scaffolding Projects
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react-boilerplate
🔥 A highly scalable, offline-first foundation with the best developer experience and a focus on performance and best practices.
I worked on a React project in 2019, I believe it was built on top of the react-boilerplate template, and the developer experience with Redux was so bad that I became a Vue developer.
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SurveyJS
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electron-nuxt
⚡ An Electron & Nuxt.js / Vue.js quick start boilerplate with vue-cli scaffolding, electron-builder, unit/e2e testing, vue-devtools
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saas-express-starter-kit
A boilerplate for any real world SaaS with features such as authentication, email service, etc.
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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Project mention: skeletor VS simple-scaffold - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/theGeekist/skeletor | 2025-05-23
Great scaffolder but doesn't have a snapshot feature
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generate-package
Use as a sub-generator or plugin in your generator to create a package.json for a project. Or install globally and run with Generate's CLI.
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vue-vite-starter-template
A single page app Vite starter template, created to easily bootstrap Vue.js 2 apps
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generator-upendodnn
A yeoman generator that scaffolds DNN extensions, including Modules (Webforms, SPA, and MVC), Persona Bar, Skin Object, Library, Scheduler, and Hotcakes Commerce projects (based on the generator built by Matt Rutledge).
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Scaffolding projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | react-boilerplate | 29,534 |
| 2 | yo | 3,901 |
| 3 | create-elm-app | 1,686 |
| 4 | electron-nuxt | 726 |
| 5 | generate-react-cli | 408 |
| 6 | oas-tools | 205 |
| 7 | saas-express-starter-kit | 58 |
| 8 | simple-scaffold | 57 |
| 9 | generate-package | 18 |
| 10 | vue-vite-starter-template | 16 |
| 11 | yogini | 16 |
| 12 | generator-upendodnn | 12 |
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