Stanza

Modular monorepo template CLI — aka shadcn for full-stack TypeScript projects.

npm init stanza my-revolutionary-app

Pick a framework, ORM, database, auth provider, and UI — get a clean monorepo with idiomatic code, vendored into your repo. Layer in more modules later with stanza-cli add.

Warning

Major work in progress! See the module registry for the roadmap.

Why Stanza?

• add works after init. Run stanza add on an existing project — it's manifest-driven and peer-aware, so it picks the right adapter for your stack and wires deps, env, and templates into the correct workspace package.
• Your code, vendored. Generated files land in your repo verbatim. There's no Stanza runtime to install or carry around.
• Open registry. Modules are static JSON. Point the CLI at your own host and serve custom modules.

Quick start

npm init stanza my-app
cd my-app
npm install
npm run dev

Add a module to an existing project at any time:

npx stanza-cli add auth better-auth

auth, db, and orm install into their own internal workspace packages (packages/auth/, packages/db/, named @<your-app>/auth, @<your-app>/db); your app consumes them via workspace:*. Swapping an auth provider replaces the contents of packages/auth/ without touching your app's imports.

Docs

Full guides and the CLI reference live at stanza.tools/docs. Assemble a stack visually with the builder at stanza.tools.

What's inside

apps/
  cli/            # stanza-cli — the CLI binary
  web/            # https://stanza.tools (TanStack Start)
packages/
  registry/       # shared schema, slot/peer/capability resolver
  codemods/       # ts-morph helpers for region-aware patching
  create-stanza/  # `npm init stanza` template shim
registry/
  modules/        # first-party modules (framework, orm, db, auth, ui, tooling, testing)

License

MIT