Stanza

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

npm init stanza my-app

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

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/  # `pnpm create stanza` shim
registry/
  modules/        # first-party modules (framework, orm, db, auth, styling, tooling, testing)

Contributing

Work in progress. See CLAUDE.md for architecture and toolchain invariants, REGISTRY.md for the module roadmap, and TODO.md for active work.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.