Hello Coders,

Usually, when we start a new project, the codebase tends to repeat over and over among different projects. Instead of reinventing the wheel, all the time can be a good solution to use a starter kit, already equipped with a few basic tools and features. This article presents a shortlist with Node JS Starters qualified for production use, based on a few necessary characteristics:

✅ clean code structure that follows proper coding standards
✅ documented and actively supported
✅ a minimum validation (Github Stars, Number of Downloads)
✅ Open-source released under a permissive license (MIT, LGPL)

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✨ React Soft Dashboard `fullstack`

Start your Development with an Innovative Admin Template for Material-UI and React. Soft UI Dashboard React is built with over 70 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining. The product comes with a simple JWT authentication flow: login/register/logout.

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✅ Innovative Soft UI Design - Crafted by Creative-Tim
✅ React, Redux, Redux-persist
✅ Authentication: JWT Tokens,
✅ OAuth via GitHub
✅ Full-stack ready using:
- Node API free product
- Node API Mongo free product

✨ React Purity Dashboard `fullstack`

Start your Development with an Innovative Admin Template for Chakra UI and React. Purity UI Dashboard is built with over 70 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, navtabs, cards or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining.

🚀 Built with React App Generator

✅ Innovative Chakra UI Design - Creafted by Creative-Tim
✅ React, Redux, Redux-persist
✅ Authentication: JWT Login/Register/Logout
✅ Full-stack ready using Node JS API Server (open-source project)
- Features: Typescript / SQLite / TypeORM / Joy (validation) / Passport library - passport-jwt strategy.

✨ React Node Datta Able

Datta Able is an open-source React Dashboard that provides a colorful and modern design. Datta Able React Free is the most stylised React Free Admin Template, around all other admin templates in the market. It comes with high feature-rich pages and components with fully developer-centric code. The product comes with a simple JWT authentication flow: login/register/logout.

👉 React Node JS Datta Able - product page
👉 React Node JS Datta Able - LIVE Demo

✨ React Node JS Berry

Berry is a creative free React Dashboard build using the Material-UI by CodedThemes agency. It is meant to be the best User Experience with highly customizable feature-riched pages. It is a complete game-changer React Dashboard Template with easy and intuitive responsive design as on retina screens or laptops. The product comes with a simple JWT authentication flow: login/register/logout.

👉 React Node JS Berry - product page
👉 React Node JS Berry - LIVE Demo

✨ Nodejs API Server

Simple Express/Nodejs Starter built with JWT authentication, and MongoDB. Authentication is based on json web tokens. passport-jwt strategy is used to handle the Email/Password authentication. After a successful login the generated token is sent to the requester.

Nodejs API Server - product page (contains DOCS & sources)

✨ Nodejs Starter Hackathon

Nodejs Starter Hackathon is a project with 26k+ stars on Github, equipped with many useful features like:

MVC structure
Authentification: local (user/pass), OAuth (1.0, 2.0)
SaaS stylesheets, Bootstrap4 integrated
Forms powered by Mailgun and Sendgrid
Integrations for Paypal, Twitter, LinkedIn

This starter can be overwhelming for a beginner, but this fact can be easily compensated by reading the docs and interact with the project community.

Nodejs Starter hackathon - the source code
Nodejs Starter hackathon demo

✨ Nodejs Starter API Kit

Nodejs Starter API Kit is a Boilerplate for authoring data API backends with Node.js and GraphQL. With more than 2.8k Github starts, this boilerplate is definitively a winner if your future project replaces the old school REST API with GraphQL. Features:

Common Node.js stack: Express, Passport, Session, Cors
PostgresSQL as DMBS, along with Redis
Localization and translations
Nodemailer, Handlebars templating
Deployment: via Docker

Starter Links

Nodejs Starter API Kit sources
License - MIT. Supported by Kriasoft

✨ RESTful API Node Server

A boilerplate/starter project for quickly building RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose.

ES9: latest ECMAScript features
NoSQL database: MongoDB object data modeling using Mongoose
Authentication and authorization: using passport
Validation: request data validation using Joi

RESTful API Node Server Boilerplate

✨ Nodejs Starter Serverless

Nodejs Starter Serverless is a Node.js starter for the Serverless Framework with async/await and unit test support. The project is actively supported by Frank Wang with 450 Github stars. This starter got my attention mainly for the serverless concept, which is a rising concept in web development nowadays. Features:

Integrate serverless-webpack plugin
ES7 syntax in handler functions
Support for unit tests (via Jtest)

Nodejs Starter Serverless Live sample hosted on AWS, and a sample of the code executed when we click on the link:

export const hello = async (event, context) => {
  return {
    statusCode: 200,
    body: JSON.stringify({
      message: `Go Serverless v1.0! ${(await message({ time: 1, copy: 'Your function executed successfully!'}))}`,
      input: event,
    }),
  };
};

const message = ({ time, ...rest }) => new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
  setTimeout(() => {
    resolve(`${rest.copy} (with a delay)`);
  }, time * 1000)
);

To start playing with this Nodejs starter, here is the list with requirements:

✨ Nodejs Starter Express Bootstrap

Nodejs Starter Express Bootstrap is a lightweight Bootstrap NodeJS boilerplate built with ExpressJS 4, MongoDB/Mongoose, Authentication with Passport.js, Jade and GruntJS as Task Automation.

The app is well organized and actively supported by a freelancer. The demo link, hosted on Heroku, seems to be dead. The app can be successfully built on (at least) on Windows10 and Ubuntu 18.04.

Not here production-ready Nodejs starter you know? Please suggest in the comments.

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