[droptablemain]

I've been seeing so many people trying to sell "kits" like this for Next.js and similar, it's quite strange as it's always mostly boilerplate code and otherwise freely available NPM packages.

These types of things should be "starter projects" and frankly they should be free on Github for anyone to download and learn with.

I have a hard time seeing any market for these kits outside of lazy junior developers.

[oooyay]

Free boilerplate templates are often not maintained for that long, dare I say usually maintained as long as the author is interested in that particular stack. I think there's some value in offering a stack that has preconfigured settings for your IDE, linters, formatters etc as well as complicated things like multi-tenant databases. It eliminates a lot of toil when setting up a new product and generally the price for these kits is under $100.

[Glench]

Well for the JS ecosystem there's nothing dominant and beloved like Rails for Ruby, so it makes sense there would be more efforts to create coherent app architectures. Plus, if the boilerplate saves developer time to launch a business application then it saves potentially a lot of money.

[realusername]

I've setup my own internal kit (I'm not selling it now) and it's much work that you think to get the small details right and bring everything together properly.

I've spent a few days on it and the price is worth it to save that amount of work in my opinion.

[4star3star]

Wasn't it worth it to truly learn the internals, though?

[thomasmol]

Interesting thought, maybe I should add clear reasons why specific parts were included and how they work

[realusername]

Personally I've done it for that goal so yeah it was worth it but if you are looking to launch a project, I can understand that you might want to skip that step.