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Top 23 JavaScript Starter Projects
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node-express-boilerplate
A boilerplate for building production-ready RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose
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SurveyJS
SurveyJS: Build JSON-Driven Surveys and Forms with Full Data Control. Add the SurveyJS UI components to your JS app (React/Angular/Vue3). Securely collect and analyze data without sending it to 3rd-party servers. Fully customizable, works with any backend, and ideal for data-heavy apps. Learn more.
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React-Native-Boilerplate
🚀🎉📚 Boilerplate and Starter for React Native, Expo, NativeWind and TypeScript ⚡️ Made with developer experience first: React Native + Expo + TypeScript + ESLint + Prettier + Husky + Lint-Staged + Jest + Detox + VSCode + NativeWind (by ixartz)
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Hey folks! Just wanted to share that TypeZero now supports all major package managers. If you haven't heard of it, TypeZero is a zero-config TypeScript starter kit for Node.js that eliminates hours of project setup and configuration headaches.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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automatic-gatsbyjs-app-landing-page
Automatic GatsbyJS App Landing Page - Automatically generate iOS app landing page using GatsbyJS
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gatsby-starter-delog
A blog for designers and developer, built with Gatsby and Netlfiy CMS. Live demo https://delog-w3layouts.netlify.com/
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gatsby-medium-blog
📝 Gatsby.js starter blog template using a Medium theme; with features like Algolia Search, post claps, Prism highlighting, contact form, dark mode, +more.
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node-red-node-typescript-starter
🏁 Quick-start template repository for creating new Node-RED node sets in TypeScript.
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11tyby
Simple 11ty setup using TypeScript, SASS, Preact with partial hydration, and other useful things. Aims to provide the DX of Gatsby, but using 11ty!
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helloWorld
Hello world is an Open Source project for programming beginners. It consists in providing a program that returns the “Hello World” message in the programming language you know. (by agnilondapakou)
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jfa-whatsapp-chatbot
🤖 With this node.js micro framework using Venom Bot under the hood, you can easily create a WhatsApp Chatbot. You will only need to edit your conversation flow in a single file.
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tailwind-solidjs-starter
Free and open-source starter project for SolidJS, Tailwind CSS and Flowbite
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mcp-server-starter
MCP (model context protocol) starter server. For UI libraries, APIs, open-source projects and more
Project mention: How to build a MCP (model context protocol) server for UI libraries + repo | dev.to | 2025-06-26For a complete example implementation, including all the code discussed in this article, please refer to the mcp-starter repository available on GitHub.
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nodejs-starter
Node js Starter app with express, mongoose, JWT token based authentication using 3 layer architecture, PubSub Pattern, and event emitters for background jobs
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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.
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 Starter projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | node-express-boilerplate | 7,469 |
| 2 | react-three-next | 2,786 |
| 3 | gatsby-starter-decap-cms | 2,063 |
| 4 | HULL | 1,436 |
| 5 | React-Native-Boilerplate | 386 |
| 6 | fresh | 317 |
| 7 | gulp-pug-starter | 295 |
| 8 | automatic-gatsbyjs-app-landing-page | 197 |
| 9 | gatsby-starter-delog | 194 |
| 10 | gatsby-starter-glass | 169 |
| 11 | javascript-starter | 129 |
| 12 | gatsby-medium-blog | 91 |
| 13 | node-red-node-typescript-starter | 89 |
| 14 | 11tyby | 59 |
| 15 | helloWorld | 50 |
| 16 | jfa-whatsapp-chatbot | 41 |
| 17 | rollup-library-starter | 22 |
| 18 | awesome-react-starter | 20 |
| 19 | idea-validation | 14 |
| 20 | tailwind-solidjs-starter | 12 |
| 21 | discordjs-v13-starter | 12 |
| 22 | mcp-server-starter | 10 |
| 23 | nodejs-starter | 4 |
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