Quick start
One sentence to your coding agent. Nothing to install, nothing to clone.
start a new project on repositorystandards.com with the node stackAlready have a repository?
take this repo onto repositorystandards.com with the node stackWhat happens next
The agent reads the standard, then reads this layer, then asks you the handful of things it cannot work out for itself - what you are building, which of these picks apply, what you already run that should stay. It does not hand you a folder to reconcile; it adapts.
That distinction is the whole reason this repository is small. It is decisions and a reference implementation, not a framework you install. Nothing here has a version you depend on.
What you get
| A running application | Next.js and Fastify behind one proxy, sign-up through to a dashboard, tests at three tiers. A CI run boots it on every change, so "it works" is a result rather than a claim. |
| Every pick argued | Each choice names what it was chosen against and what would make you right to deviate. The decisions is the whole of it - read the table, dig only where you disagree. |
| A path for a repo that exists | Per entry, from what you have to what this ships, in an order that does not break the build. That is adapting, and it is the half most standards skip. |
If you would rather just read the code
Fair, and the starter is a real application:
npx degit repository-standards/node/starter my-app
cd my-app && pnpm install && pnpm devSign-up to dashboard works with no setup. Treat it as reading rather than adopting: copying a tree is how a repository ends up carrying decisions nobody made for it, and that is the failure the standard exists to prevent. It does not stop being one because the tree is good.