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sahat/megaboilerplate
Handcrafted starter projects, optimized for simplicity and ease of use.
Megaboilerplate is a web-based generator for Node.js starter projects, letting you pick your stack combinations (Express/Meteor/Jekyll, various databases, CSS preprocessors, JS frameworks) and download a pre-wired project. It's for developers who want a working skeleton without manually stitching together auth, OAuth, and build tooling from scratch.
The multi-axis configurability is genuinely useful — you can mix Handlebars with MongoDB or React with SQLite and get a working project rather than manually adapting a fixed template. The included examples are concrete, runnable apps with real auth flows (Passport strategies, OAuth providers) rather than toy demos. Password reset, flash messages, and contact form are all wired up, which covers the boring but necessary parts that most boilerplates skip. The ES6 and date cheatsheets embedded in the README are a nice touch for the target audience.
The project hasn't been touched since 2022 and targets Node.js 6.0 — everything here is effectively legacy tech (Jade/Pug templates, AngularJS 1.x, React/Redux without hooks, Webpack 1.x era patterns). Anyone adopting this today would be fighting outdated dependencies immediately. The live generator website appears to be the real product, but there's no way to evaluate whether it's still running or maintained. The AngularJS generator is explicitly under-invested per the README itself, and the Digital Ocean deployment section is just a TODO, which suggests the project lost steam before it was finished.