Ship is a comprehensive boilerplate that helps startups save time by providing pre-configured frontend, backend, and DevOps components. It's built on cutting-edge technology tested by hundreds of engineers on 100+ live products.
Key components include:
Frontend (/web)
Backend (/api)
DevOps (/deploy)
Benefits
Save 100+ hours of building and configuration
Launch your product with a single command
Follow opinionated advice for scalable applications
Always up-to-date with latest technologies
Built and maintained by an experienced team
Ship defines micro-service architecture standards that enable scalable and rapid product delivery, allowing teams to build MVPs in days and scale for years.
JavaScript excels in SaaS development due to its robust ecosystem, strong typing capabilities, and excellent library support. JavaScript boilerplates leverage language-specific features to provide type-safe database queries, efficient API routing, and optimized runtime performance. The language's maturity means you get battle-tested packages for authentication, payment processing, and background jobs that integrate seamlessly.
TypeScript
What makes TypeScript ideal for SaaS development?
TypeScript excels in SaaS development due to its robust ecosystem, strong typing capabilities, and excellent library support. TypeScript boilerplates leverage language-specific features to provide type-safe database queries, efficient API routing, and optimized runtime performance. The language's maturity means you get battle-tested packages for authentication, payment processing, and background jobs that integrate seamlessly.
Next.js
What Next.js-specific architecture patterns are implemented?
Next.js boilerplates leverage the framework's native architecture patterns including its routing system, middleware pipeline, and controller/handler structure. They implement Next.js's conventions for separating concerns, dependency injection, and service layer patterns. The codebase follows Next.js's best practices for organizing models, views/components, and business logic to ensure maintainability as your application grows.
Node.js
What Node.js-specific architecture patterns are implemented?
Node.js boilerplates leverage the framework's native architecture patterns including its routing system, middleware pipeline, and controller/handler structure. They implement Node.js's conventions for separating concerns, dependency injection, and service layer patterns. The codebase follows Node.js's best practices for organizing models, views/components, and business logic to ensure maintainability as your application grows.
React
What React-specific component architecture is used?
React boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement React's best practices for component structure, props handling, event management, and lifecycle methods. The component library includes authentication flows, dashboards, data tables, forms with validation, and navigation—all built with React's native features like hooks (React), composition API (Vue), or directives (Angular).
Tailwind CSS
What Tailwind CSS-specific component architecture is used?
Tailwind CSS boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement Tailwind CSS's best practices for component structure, props handling, event management, and lifecycle methods. The component library includes authentication flows, dashboards, data tables, forms with validation, and navigation—all built with Tailwind CSS's native features like hooks (React), composition API (Vue), or directives (Angular).
MongoDB
What MongoDB-specific features are leveraged in these boilerplates?
MongoDB boilerplates utilize the database's native capabilities including its transaction model (ACID for SQL, eventual consistency for NoSQL), indexing strategies (B-tree, GiST, full-text search), and advanced features like JSON columns, array types, window functions, or document queries. The schema design takes advantage of MongoDB's strengths—whether that's PostgreSQL's JSONB, MySQL's full-text search, MongoDB's aggregation pipeline, or Redis's data structures.
JavaScript
What JavaScript-specific tools and libraries are included?
JavaScript boilerplates include the language's most popular and production-proven tools. This typically includes testing frameworks, linters, formatters, build tools, and package managers specific to JavaScript. You'll get pre-configured toolchains that enforce best practices, automated testing pipelines, and development environments optimized for JavaScript development workflows.
TypeScript
What TypeScript-specific tools and libraries are included?
TypeScript boilerplates include the language's most popular and production-proven tools. This typically includes testing frameworks, linters, formatters, build tools, and package managers specific to TypeScript. You'll get pre-configured toolchains that enforce best practices, automated testing pipelines, and development environments optimized for TypeScript development workflows.
Next.js
How does Next.js's ORM/database layer work in these boilerplates?
Next.js boilerplates use the framework's native ORM or query builder (Prisma, Eloquent, Active Record, SQLAlchemy, etc.) with pre-configured models for users, subscriptions, teams, and common SaaS entities. They include optimized queries, relationships, migrations, seeders, and database connection pooling. The implementation leverages Next.js's specific features like eager loading, query scopes, and transaction handling for performance.
Node.js
How does Node.js's ORM/database layer work in these boilerplates?
Node.js boilerplates use the framework's native ORM or query builder (Prisma, Eloquent, Active Record, SQLAlchemy, etc.) with pre-configured models for users, subscriptions, teams, and common SaaS entities. They include optimized queries, relationships, migrations, seeders, and database connection pooling. The implementation leverages Node.js's specific features like eager loading, query scopes, and transaction handling for performance.
React
How is state management handled in React boilerplates?
React boilerplates use the framework's recommended state management approach—whether that's React Context + hooks, Redux Toolkit, Zustand, Pinia (Vue), NgRx (Angular), or Svelte stores. They include pre-configured state slices for authentication, user data, subscriptions, and UI state with proper TypeScript typing. The implementation follows React's patterns for global state, local component state, and server state synchronization.
Tailwind CSS
How is state management handled in Tailwind CSS boilerplates?
Tailwind CSS boilerplates use the framework's recommended state management approach—whether that's React Context + hooks, Redux Toolkit, Zustand, Pinia (Vue), NgRx (Angular), or Svelte stores. They include pre-configured state slices for authentication, user data, subscriptions, and UI state with proper TypeScript typing. The implementation follows Tailwind CSS's patterns for global state, local component state, and server state synchronization.
MongoDB
How is the MongoDB schema designed for SaaS applications?
MongoDB boilerplates include production-tested schemas for multi-tenancy, user management, subscriptions, and billing. The design follows MongoDB's best practices for data modeling—whether that's normalized tables with foreign keys (SQL), embedded documents vs. references (MongoDB), or partition key strategies (DynamoDB). Schemas include proper constraints, default values, and relationship management optimized for MongoDB's query engine.
