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ShipFast
PaidThe best-known Next.js SaaS boilerplate — Stripe payments, magic-link and social auth, transactional emails, SEO helpers, and a component library wired together so you launch in days. Paid, from $199 one-time.
create-t3-app
Open SourceThe best way to start a full-stack, typesafe Next.js app — interactive CLI that scaffolds Next.js with tRPC, Prisma or Drizzle, Tailwind, and NextAuth, only including the pieces you pick. Open-source, hugely popular.
Makerkit
PaidProduction-grade SaaS starter kits for Next.js and React Router with Supabase — multi-tenant teams, roles and permissions, billing via Stripe or Lemon Squeezy, a super-admin panel, and tests included. Paid, from $299 one-time.
Vercel AI Chatbot
Open SourceVercel's official open-source AI chatbot template — Next.js App Router with the AI SDK, streaming chat UI, model-provider switching (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and more), auth, and chat history persistence.
Epic Stack
Open SourceKent C. Dodds' opinionated open-source full-stack starter — React Router, SQLite + LiteFS, Prisma, Tailwind, built-in auth with passkeys, role-based permissions, E2E tests with Playwright, and Fly.io deployment out of the box.
Ignite
Open SourceInfinite Red's battle-tested React Native boilerplate — Expo-ready CLI that scaffolds apps with MobX-State-Tree, typed navigation, theming, testing, and generators, refined over nearly a decade of agency client work. Open-source.
AstroWind
Open SourceOne of the most-starred Astro starters — Astro + Tailwind CSS landing/marketing template with blog, a wide component set, dark mode, image optimization, and excellent Lighthouse scores. Free and open-source (MIT).
Next.js Commerce
Open SourceVercel's official open-source e-commerce template — a high-performance, server-rendered Next.js App Router storefront on Shopify's Storefront API, with cart, dynamic products, and edge-ready image optimization.
Plasmo
Open SourceThe open-source framework for building browser extensions with React and TypeScript — declarative content scripts, live-reload dev server, automatic manifest generation, cross-browser targets, and store deployment tooling.
Full Stack FastAPI Template
Open SourceThe official FastAPI project generator by its creator — FastAPI + SQLModel + Pydantic backend, React/TypeScript frontend with an auto-generated API client, JWT auth, Docker Compose, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and Traefik deployment.
SaaS Pegasus
PaidThe Django SaaS boilerplate — teams, Stripe subscriptions, a React or HTMX front end, background tasks with Celery, and per-project code generation so you only ship what you need. Paid, from $249.
Tauri
Open SourceOpen-source toolkit and scaffold (create-tauri-app) for tiny, fast, secure desktop and mobile apps — any web frontend (React, Vue, Svelte) over a Rust core, using the OS webview for apps measured in megabytes, not hundreds.
One bar: a real starter, maintained, that saves you weeks
Every listing is a codebase you can actually build on today — auth, payments, deploys or scaffolding already solved, tracked against current framework versions. Tags show the stack; badges show open-source vs paid; prices are stated in the description.
Boilerplates Frequently Asked Questions
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What counts as a boilerplate?
A real starter kit you clone or buy to launch faster — a SaaS starter with auth and Stripe wired in, a Next.js or Expo template, an extension scaffold, a backend generator. Not a tutorial, not a component library screenshot: a maintained codebase that saves you weeks of setup. Both paid kits (ShipFast, Makerkit) and open-source starters (create-t3-app, Epic Stack) qualify.
Are boilerplates worth paying for?
Sometimes. Paid kits ($99–$300 one-time, typically) buy you pre-integrated payments, auth, emails, and a maintainer who keeps them current — worth it when your launch window matters more than the money. Open-source starters cover a huge share of the same ground for free. Every listing here says clearly which it is, with the price when paid.
How do I tell a maintained starter from abandonware?
Check the last release or commit date, whether it tracks current framework majors, open issues with maintainer replies, and whether the docs mention today's stack. We do this check for every listing and re-verify the catalog regularly — dead kits get removed.
Open-source or paid — which should I pick?
Pick paid when you need billing + auth + emails integrated and supported by someone whose income depends on it. Pick open-source when you want to own every line, learn from the code, or your stack is unusual. The 'Open Source' and price badges on each listing make the comparison fast.
Do these starters lock me into a stack?
Every boilerplate encodes stack decisions — that's the point and the price. The tags on each listing show exactly which stack you're committing to (nextjs, supabase, stripe, expo…), and the 'Limitations' section on detailed listings says honestly what's hard to swap out.
How does Boilerplates Directory pick what to list?
Every listing is human-reviewed against four criteria: a real starter that scaffolds a working project, actively maintained, honest about what's included and what it costs, and its URL verified live. We reject tutorials, dead projects, and vaporware landing pages. No paid placement without a 'Sponsored' label.
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