honojs-boilerplate

Production-ready Hono.js API boilerplate with JWT auth, OAuth, and background jobs

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Best for: Developers who want a genuinely production-grade Hono.js API backend - auth, OAuth, jobs, rate limiting - with no frontend attached.
Skip if: You need a bundled frontend/dashboard UI - this is a pure backend API boilerplate with no admin interface included.

honojs-boilerplate is a free, MIT-licensed backend API starter built on Hono.js and Drizzle ORM, with a modular, layered architecture. It ships JWT session auth (Jose-signed, Postgres revocation) with Argon2id password hashing, email/password auth with verification, Google/Facebook/Discord OAuth, S3-compatible avatar uploads via Garage, BullMQ background email jobs, Redis-backed dual rate limiting, and Zod-validated DTOs with Pino structured logging.

Pros

Unusually thorough for a backend-only starter - OAuth, Argon2id hashing, job queues, dual rate limiting, and health checks are all wired
Clean modular architecture (controller/service/repository/DTO layering) that's easy to extend
Free, MIT-licensed, actively developed with recent commits

Cons

Zero GitHub stars - brand-new and unproven outside its author's own use
No frontend or dashboard UI at all, despite being categorized alongside dashboard templates - purely an API layer
Relies on Garage for S3-compatible storage, a less mainstream choice than AWS S3/R2 directly