Backend & API Boilerplates

9 backend & api boilerplates and starter kits in the directory — open-source and paid, clearly labelled.

The 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.

fastapipythonreact
🎛️

The long-standing community-standard Django project generator — production-grade settings layout, custom user model, Docker, Celery, allauth, optional DRF, Postgres, and deployment configs, updated continuously for over a decade.

djangopythonpostgres
🚂

Loco

Open Source

'Rust on Rails' — an open-source full-stack framework and app scaffold for Rust: convention-over-configuration project generation, ORM with migrations, auth, background jobs, mailers, and single-binary deployment.

rustbackendapi

Production NestJS starter — auth (email, social), roles, i18n, TypeORM or Mongoose, file uploads to S3, Swagger docs, Docker, CI, and E2E tests, maintained by the Brocoders agency and widely used as a REST API base. Open-source (MIT).

nestjstypescriptpostgres
🤠

JHipster

Open Source

Veteran open-source application generator — scaffolds Spring Boot backends with Angular, React, or Vue frontends, including auth, entity modeling with JDL, microservice options, CI/CD configs, and cloud deployment recipes.

spring-bootjavaangular
🐹

Go Blueprint

Open Source

CLI for spinning up Go projects with popular layouts — pick your HTTP framework (chi, gin, echo, fiber), database driver, and optional extras like HTMX or Docker, and get a consistent, idiomatic project structure. Open-source (MIT).

gochigin
🧿

BuildShip

Open Source

Visual low-code backend builder — compose APIs, scheduled jobs, and AI workflows from nodes or generate them with AI, then ship them as scalable serverless backends that pair with any frontend. Free tier, paid plans for production usage.

low-codeserverlessapi
🔮

Amplication

Open Source

Open-source backend code generator — model your data and get a production-ready Node.js (NestJS) service with REST and GraphQL APIs, authentication, roles, and admin UI, with generated code you own and re-generate as models evolve.

nestjsnodejsgraphql
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Bleeding-edge, strictness-first Django project template — mypy typing, wemake-python-styleguide (one of the strictest Python linters), pytest, Docker, and per-environment settings, aimed at long-lived production services. Open-source.

djangopythonmypy