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Starter-kit projects on GitHub

Ready-made boilerplate projects that give developers a starting point for new applications.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Starter-kit projects on GitHub are html5-boilerplate (57.7K stars), element (54K stars) and hackathon-starter (35.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 20 Starter-kit repositories with 411.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was LazyVim, with +14 stars in a day.

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411.6KStars in total

+71Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+14

LazyVim

LazyVim/LazyVim · ★ 27.7K

LazyVim is a pre-made Neovim configuration built on the lazy.nvim plugin manager, designed to be easy to customize and extend.

+14

sales-crm

kargulstudio/sales-crm · ★ 1.7K

Kargul Starter is a boilerplate for building web projects with Next.js 16, React 19, and Tailwind CSS 4, shipped with a strict set of build conventions.

ai-town

a16z-infra/ai-town · ★ 10.7K

AI Town is an MIT-licensed starter kit for building a virtual town where AI characters live, chat, and socialize with each other.

kickstart.nvim

nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim · ★ 31.6K

A launch point for your personal Neovim configuration: a small, single-file, fully documented init.lua you clone and make your own. Explicitly not a Neovim distribution.

The all-time top

20 projects · by stars

#1 · h5bp/html5-boilerplate
html5-boilerplate
HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites, refined over more than 10 years by 200+ contributors.
57.7K
#2 · ElemeFE/element
element
Element is a Vue.js 2.0 UI toolkit: a library of ready-made interface components you use to build web interfaces.
54K
#3 · sahat/hackathon-starter
hackathon-starter
Hackathon Starter is a boilerplate for Node.js web applications that bundles login, OAuth, and dozens of API integrations so you don't have to set them up from scratch during a hackathon.
35.3K

4
kickstart.nvim
31.6Knvim-lua/kickstart.nvim · Lua
A launch point for your personal Neovim configuration: a small, single-file, fully documented init.lua you clone and make your own. Explicitly not a Neovim distribution.
5
create-t3-app
29.2Kt3-oss/create-t3-app · TypeScript
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.
6
LazyVim
27.7KLazyVim/LazyVim · Lua
LazyVim is a pre-made Neovim configuration built on the lazy.nvim plugin manager, designed to be easy to customize and extend.
7
react-starter-kit
23.7Kkriasoft/react-starter-kit · TypeScript
React Starter Kit is a full-stack monorepo template for building SaaS applications, combining React 19, tRPC, and Drizzle ORM into a single type-safe contract from the database up to the UI, deployed on Cloudflare Workers.
8
pico
16.8Kpicocss/pico · CSS
Pico is a minimal CSS framework for semantic HTML: one stylesheet that makes plain HTML elements responsive and elegant by default. MIT-licensed and built around writing HTML, not classes.
9
Best-README-Template
16.4Kothneildrew/Best-README-Template
This is a README template designed to help you quickly write a polished, well-structured README.md for your own GitHub projects, with ready-made sections for About, Getting Started, Usage, Roadmap, and Contact.
10
saas-starter
16.2Knextjs/saas-starter · TypeScript
A free, open-source starter template for building a SaaS web app on Next.js, maintained under the official Next.js org: authentication, Stripe payments, and a dashboard for logged-in users come already wired up.
11
self-hosted-ai-starter-kit
15.3Kn8n-io/self-hosted-ai-starter-kit
A Docker Compose template that spins up a complete local AI and low-code development environment, bundling n8n, Ollama, Qdrant, and PostgreSQL so you can build self-hosted AI workflows without sending data to external services.
12
responsive-html-email-template
13.7Kleemunroe/responsive-html-email-template · HTML
A free, simple responsive HTML email template with a clear call-to-action button that you can use as the basis for your own emails.
13
create-react-native-app
13.2Kexpo/create-react-native-app · JavaScript
A command-line tool that generates a starter React Native app you can run on iOS, Android, and web.
14
Next-js-Boilerplate
13.1Kixartz/Next-js-Boilerplate · TypeScript
A production-ready boilerplate and starter kit for building Next.js 16 apps with App Router, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS 4, pre-wired with authentication, a database, testing, and other dev-experience tooling.
15
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.
16
TypeScript-React-Starter
11Kmicrosoft/TypeScript-React-Starter · TypeScript
Microsoft's starter template and step-by-step guide for wiring up TypeScript with React. By the end you have a project with TSLint linting, Jest and Enzyme testing, and Redux state management.
17
_s
11KAutomattic/_s · CSS
_s (Underscores) is an archived, officially inactive WordPress starter theme by Automattic, meant as a blank slate developers hack into their own custom theme rather than use as-is.
18
ai-town
10.7Ka16z-infra/ai-town · TypeScript
AI Town is an MIT-licensed starter kit for building a virtual town where AI characters live, chat, and socialize with each other.
19
sales-crm
1.7Kkargulstudio/sales-crm · TypeScript
Kargul Starter is a boilerplate for building web projects with Next.js 16, React 19, and Tailwind CSS 4, shipped with a strict set of build conventions.
20
workflow-editor
431kargulstudio/workflow-editor · TypeScript
This is a Next.js starter boilerplate pairing Next.js 16, React 19 and Tailwind CSS 4, built around a strict set of build conventions documented in CONVENTIONS.md.