I originally shared this here [a couple of years ago](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612106) - since then I've upstreamed a bunch of improvements that I've made to various forks I have running in the wild. It's substantially different from the version I originally shared, at this point.

Some highlights for dev ergonomics: - Unejected create-react-app w/ typescript for the front-end - Themeable semantic-ui component library tied into the hot-reload loop - json-web-token based user sessions, including middleware with token refresh - sql bindings via sqlc (autogenerates db mocks, too, all hot-reload) - server-side rendering with a sidecar container (prerender) - stubbed out backend "worker" container for async tasks - pre-baked database migration pattern

This has been a really productive (and performant!) starter project for me - hopefully it's useful to others.