Wails

The long-running foundation for scalable cross-platform desktop apps — Electron with React, Webpack, TypeScript and hot reload, plus packaging via electron-builder for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Open-source.

Open-source toolkit and scaffold (create-tauri-app) for tiny, fast, secure desktop and mobile apps — any web frontend (React, Vue, Svelte) over a Rust core, using the OS webview for apps measured in megabytes, not hundreds.

Electron's official all-in-one tooling — scaffolds new apps from templates (Webpack or Vite, TypeScript), then handles packaging, code signing, installers for every OS, and store publishing from one config. Open-source (MIT).

The open framework for building professional command-line tools in TypeScript — scaffolds a CLI with argument parsing, plugins, auto-generated help and docs, and testing helpers. Built by Salesforce/Heroku; powers their CLIs.

The template engine behind thousands of project starters — a command-line utility that generates projects from community 'cookiecutters' (Python packages, Django sites, data science layouts) with prompted variables. Open-source (BSD).

thoughtbot's Rails application generator — creates new Rails apps preconfigured with the consultancy's defaults for testing (RSpec), linting, CI, deployment, and development conveniences, refined across client work since 2008. Open-source.