Free and Open-source Boilerplates
LAST VERIFIED AUG 26, 2026
Not every boilerplate needs to cost money, and plenty of genuinely production-ready ones don't. This is the free, MIT- or similarly-licensed slice of the directory - no paywall, no trial that reverts to a nag screen, source fully available to read, fork, and modify. It's a good starting point if you want to learn from a real codebase before you pay for anything, or if your project doesn't justify a license fee yet. It is not automatically a lower-quality list: some of the best-maintained kits here are free because their maintainer monetizes support or a hosted version instead of the code itself.
62 kits - 62 free
FastAPI-boilerplate (Fastro)
Async FastAPI backend starter with auth, caching, rate-limits and background jobs
Ignite
The oldest actively maintained React Native boilerplate, still updated after nine years.
electron-vite
The standard Vite-powered build tool and project scaffold for Electron apps
Next.js Portfolio Starter Kit
Vercel's official MDX blog-and-portfolio starter, tuned for SEO out of the box
Obytes React Native Starter
A batteries-included Expo starter tuned for shipping to app stores fast.
Apptension SaaS Boilerplate
Free, open-source Django + React SaaS boilerplate with 3k GitHub stars
CMSaaSStarter
An open-source SvelteKit SaaS starter tuned for perfect PageSpeed scores
Bullet Train
An MIT-licensed Rails SaaS framework with team management, billing, and API scaffolding built in
Mastodon
The self-hosted, federated microblogging server behind the biggest corner of the fediverse.
Vue Vben Admin
A modern Vue 3 admin panel built with Shadcn UI, Vite, and TypeScript in a monorepo
Bagisto
A large, open-source Laravel e-commerce platform with multi-vendor and B2B support
Electron React Boilerplate
A long-running open-source starter for building cross-platform desktop apps with Electron and React
AstroWind
Free Astro + Tailwind CSS v4 landing page template with an SEO-friendly blog built in
Nextron
Build Electron desktop apps using Next.js and only web knowledge
Lunar
Headless Laravel e-commerce package with a production-ready admin panel
Very Good CLI
A CLI-generated Flutter starter with 100% test coverage enforced from the first commit.
create-tauri-app
The official scaffolding CLI for starting new Tauri desktop/mobile apps
ng-matero
An open-source Angular Material admin dashboard template
Nuxt UI Dashboard Template
Official Nuxt UI dashboard template with a command palette, keyboard shortcuts and collapsible sidebar
Pagoda
A free, MIT-licensed Go full-stack starter kit with an admin panel, HTMX, and Alpine.js
Next.js SaaS Starter
Vercel's official free SaaS starter on Next.js 15 and Drizzle
v4 (Brittany Chiang Portfolio Template)
The dark navy-and-mint developer portfolio that a huge share of "cool personal sites" you've seen are forked from
Ultimate Backend
A free, MIT-licensed NestJS microservices SaaS starter with CQRS, GraphQL, and 7 core services
YaSaas
Free, open-source Django + React starter for data-monetization SaaS
GoShip
Open-source Go + HTMX SaaS boilerplate with Stripe, notifications and PWA support
Laravel AI Chat
Laravel + Inertia AI chat starter with streaming responses across 9 model providers
Nuxt AI Chatbot Template
An official Nuxt UI template for building a streaming AI chatbot with auth and chat history
TailAdmin Vue
Free, open-source Vue.js Tailwind CSS admin dashboard template
Remix Store (Hydrogen)
Official Remix team's production Shopify Hydrogen storefront, open-sourced as a reference build
TailAdmin Laravel
The official Laravel port of the popular TailAdmin dashboard template
TailAdmin Angular
A free, open-source Angular admin dashboard template built with Tailwind CSS
Next Forge
Vercel-maintained Next.js Turborepo SaaS starter
Open SaaS
A free, open-source SaaS starter with auth, payments, and an admin dashboard built-in
FastAPI Backend Starter Kit
A production-ready FastAPI backend template with async CRUD, Celery workers, and Docker out of the box
Bordful
Airtable-backed Next.js job board you can launch without touching a database.
SaaS Starter (stickerdaniel)
A SvelteKit + Convex SaaS starter built for AI-agent-assisted development
AI SaaS Starter Kit
A Next.js + FastAPI monorepo for shipping AI image-generation SaaS products
Express-BetterAuth-Boilerplate
A Node.js/Express backend starter with Better-Auth authentication fully wired up
Wave
An open-source Laravel SaaS starter with Stripe/Paddle billing and a Filament admin panel
Ant Design Pro
The official out-of-the-box admin template built on Ant Design
nuxt-starter-medusa
A Nuxt 3 storefront starter for the Medusa v2 e-commerce backend
Svelteflare
A free SvelteKit + Hono SaaS starter deployed edge-first on Cloudflare Workers
Svelte GSAP Agency Template
A free Svelte 5 creative-agency landing page with GSAP scroll animations
SvelteKit Landing Page Template (loke-dev)
A free SvelteKit 5 landing page template tuned for 100/100 Lighthouse scores
Remix MDX Blog Template
A free, MIT-licensed React Router (Remix) blog starter with MDX content and shadcn/ui
Rails Tabler Starter
Free Rails admin starter built on the Tabler dashboard theme
next-hono-turborepo
Minimal Next.js 16 + Hono monorepo starter with Turborepo and Docker
Soybean Admin
A free, MIT-licensed Vue 3 admin template with automatic file routing and multiple UI library options
Spartacus
SAP's open-source Angular storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud
SvelteKit Commerce
Vercel's official open-source SvelteKit storefront template backed by Shopify
Nuxt Commerce
A server-rendered e-commerce starter for Nuxt backed by Shopify
Tauri App Template
A pre-configured Tauri + React desktop app starter with theming and system tray support
Cloudflare Agents Starter
An AI chat agent starter on Cloudflare Workers with Auth0 authentication
NestJS AI SaaS Starter
Modular NestJS + LangGraph AI platform with streaming, checkpointing and multi-agent orchestration
honojs-boilerplate
Production-ready Hono.js API boilerplate with JWT auth, OAuth, and background jobs
SvelteKit AI Chatbot (jianyuan)
An open-source SvelteKit port of Vercel's AI Chatbot template
Laravel Job Board
Self-hosted Laravel starter with Stripe checkout already wired up for paid job listings.
Nuxtship
A free, GPL-3.0 Nuxt 3 + Tailwind landing page starter, adapted from Astroship
Astro Starter Blog
Free, minimal Astro + Tailwind CSS blog starter with an image gallery
LastSaaS
A free, MIT-licensed Go + React SaaS boilerplate with multi-tenant billing, RBAC, and an MCP server
Multi-Tenant SaaS Starter NestJS (OwaliShawon)
A NestJS backend starter for multi-tenant SaaS, billed as 'Laravel Jetstream for NestJS'
Tauri Modern Desktop App Starter Kit
Minimal Tauri v2 + React + shadcn desktop app starter with tray and autostart