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felipeAguiarCode/node-blue-boilerplate
A Minimalist NodeJs with Typescript pre-configured.
A minimal Node.js + TypeScript starter with tsx for development and tsup for bundling. It's a template repo, not a library — the entire value is in the pre-wired toolchain so you don't copy-paste the same tsconfig and package.json scripts on every new project.
tsx instead of ts-node is a good call — it's noticeably faster and doesn't require separate compilation during dev. tsup for bundling is the right tool for this class of project: zero-config esbuild wrapper that produces clean output. The dependency list is intentionally short, which is the correct choice for a boilerplate. Using TypeScript 5.4 as of its last update means it's not ancient.
The entire project is a single src/server.ts file, so there's no example structure to actually learn from or extend — you're getting a configured toolchain, not a project layout. No linting setup (ESLint/Biome) is a notable omission for something calling itself a boilerplate. Last touched March 2024 and not actively maintained, so dependency drift is already showing. No test runner is wired up, which you'll add on day one anyway and have to configure yourself.