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Scaffolding projects on GitHub

Project scaffolding that generates a ready-to-run codebase structure for new applications

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Scaffolding projects on GitHub are react-boilerplate (29.5K stars), create-t3-app (29.2K stars) and angular-cli (27K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Scaffolding repositories with 220.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was create-t3-app, with +3 stars in a day.

12Projects

220.3KStars in total

+10Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

create-t3-app

t3-oss/create-t3-app · ★ 29.2K

create-t3-app is an interactive CLI that scaffolds a full-stack, typesafe Next.js app built on the T3 Stack — a web dev stack focused on simplicity, modularity, and full-stack typesafety.

awesome-vite

vitejs/awesome-vite · ★ 17.3K

A curated list of awesome things related to Vite.js — hand-picked links to official resources, scaffolding tools and starter templates from across the Vite ecosystem.

react-boilerplate

react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate · ★ 29.5K

A production-ready React boilerplate that wires together Redux, redux-saga, react-router, styled-components, and offline support so you can start a scalable React app in seconds instead of configuring it from scratch.

angular-cli

angular/angular-cli · ★ 27K

This is the Angular CLI — the official command-line tool for Angular. You use it to initialize, develop, scaffold, and maintain Angular applications straight from a terminal.

The all-time top

12 projects · by stars

#1 · react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate
react-boilerplate
A production-ready React boilerplate that wires together Redux, redux-saga, react-router, styled-components, and offline support so you can start a scalable React app in seconds instead of configuring it from scratch.
29.5K
#2 · t3-oss/create-t3-app
create-t3-app
create-t3-app is an interactive CLI that scaffolds a full-stack, typesafe Next.js app built on the T3 Stack — a web dev stack focused on simplicity, modularity, and full-stack typesafety.
29.2K
#3 · angular/angular-cli
angular-cli
This is the Angular CLI — the official command-line tool for Angular. You use it to initialize, develop, scaffold, and maintain Angular applications straight from a terminal.
27K

4
cookiecutter
25.1Kcookiecutter/cookiecutter · Python
Cookiecutter is a cross-platform command-line utility that creates new projects from templates (called cookiecutters), for example Python package projects, Django apps, or C projects.
5
generator-jhipster
22.5Kjhipster/generator-jhipster · TypeScript
An open-source development platform for quickly generating, developing, and deploying modern web applications and microservice architectures: you answer its prompts, and it hands you a complete full-stack codebase.
6
CleanArchitecture
20.6Kjasontaylordev/CleanArchitecture · C#
An open-source .NET solution template that scaffolds a complete ASP.NET Core application structured around Clean Architecture, so teams start from a working, well-layered codebase instead of an empty project.
7
awesome-vite
17.3Kvitejs/awesome-vite · JavaScript
A curated list of awesome things related to Vite.js — hand-picked links to official resources, scaffolding tools and starter templates from across the Vite ecosystem.
8
electron-vue
15.4KSimulatedGREG/electron-vue · JavaScript
electron-vue is a boilerplate for building Electron desktop apps with Vue.js. It bundles vue-cli scaffolding, webpack with vue-loader, common Vue plugins, and packaging tools so you do not have to wire up an Electron+Vue app from scratch.
9
angular-seed
13.1Kangular/angular-seed · JavaScript
A seed project — an application skeleton for AngularJS web apps. Cloning it gives you a working sample app plus a preconfigured dev and testing environment to build on.
10
yeoman
10.1Kyeoman/yeoman
Yeoman is a robust and opinionated set of tools, libraries, and a workflow that helps developers quickly build beautiful, compelling web apps by automating the routine parts of the development workflow.
11
cookiecutter-data-science
10.1Kdrivendataorg/cookiecutter-data-science · Python
This is Cookiecutter Data Science (CCDS), a tool that scaffolds new data science projects from a template that bakes in best practices, so every project gets a logical, standardized but flexible structure.
12
gtkx
487gtkx-org/gtkx · TypeScript
GTKX is a framework for building native Linux desktop apps with React and TypeScript, rendering real Adwaita and GTK4 widgets instead of a browser-based UI.