ShipAhead is a comprehensive Nuxt 4 boilerplate designed to accelerate the development of AI SaaS applications. This tool allows developers to save hours of development time by providing a pre-built setup that includes essential features such as authentication, payments, and analytics. ShipAhead eliminates the need for repetitive setup tasks, enabling you to focus on building unique features and launching faster. Key features include:
Authentication: Easy user sign-up and login with options like email, password, magic link, and OAuth providers.
Backend: Reliable data management with Drizzle ORM and Postgres, file storage with Cloudflare R2 or AWS S3, and a Super Admin dashboard.
Analytics: Integrate your choice of analytics tools to track user activity and performance.
AI Integration: Enhance your app with AI-powered features.
Security: Protect your app with Captcha and rate limiting using Redis.
SEO: Optimized SEO setup with Nuxt for better search engine visibility.
Deployment: Seamless deployment with platforms like Vercel and Cloudflare.
Payments: Built-in Stripe integration for global payment acceptance.
Frontend & UI: Beautiful, responsive design with pre-built UI components using TailwindCSS and daisyUI.
With ShipAhead, you can turn your app into an installable Progressive Web App and enjoy additional features like live chat support, internationalization, and more. Join the community and start shipping your AI SaaS in days, not months.
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.
Nuxt
What Nuxt-specific architecture patterns are implemented?
Nuxt boilerplates leverage the framework's native architecture patterns including its routing system, middleware pipeline, and controller/handler structure. They implement Nuxt's conventions for separating concerns, dependency injection, and service layer patterns. The codebase follows Nuxt's best practices for organizing models, views/components, and business logic to ensure maintainability as your application grows.
DaisyUI
What DaisyUI-specific component architecture is used?
DaisyUI boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement DaisyUI'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 DaisyUI's native features like hooks (React), composition API (Vue), or directives (Angular).
Markdown
What Markdown-specific component architecture is used?
Markdown boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement Markdown'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 Markdown's native features like hooks (React), composition API (Vue), or directives (Angular).
Nuxt
What Nuxt-specific component architecture is used?
Nuxt boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement Nuxt'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 Nuxt'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).
Vue.js
What Vue.js-specific component architecture is used?
Vue.js boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement Vue.js'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 Vue.js's native features like hooks (React), composition API (Vue), or directives (Angular).
Drizzle ORM
What Drizzle ORM-specific features are leveraged in these boilerplates?
Drizzle ORM 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 Drizzle ORM's strengths—whether that's PostgreSQL's JSONB, MySQL's full-text search, MongoDB's aggregation pipeline, or Redis's data structures.
Neon
What Neon-specific features are leveraged in these boilerplates?
Neon 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 Neon's strengths—whether that's PostgreSQL's JSONB, MySQL's full-text search, MongoDB's aggregation pipeline, or Redis's data structures.
PostgreSQL
What PostgreSQL-specific features are leveraged in these boilerplates?
PostgreSQL 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 PostgreSQL's strengths—whether that's PostgreSQL's JSONB, MySQL's full-text search, MongoDB's aggregation pipeline, or Redis's data structures.
Supabase
What Supabase-specific features are leveraged in these boilerplates?
Supabase 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 Supabase's strengths—whether that's PostgreSQL's JSONB, MySQL's full-text search, MongoDB's aggregation pipeline, or Redis's data structures.
Stripe
What Stripe API features are implemented?
Stripe boilerplates implement the provider's complete API suite including checkout sessions, subscription lifecycle management, customer portal, webhook event handling, and invoice generation. They use Stripe's latest API version with proper error handling, idempotency keys, and retry logic. The integration includes Stripe-specific features like payment intents, setup intents, subscription schedules, and tax calculation APIs.
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.
Nuxt
How does Nuxt's ORM/database layer work in these boilerplates?
Nuxt 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 Nuxt's specific features like eager loading, query scopes, and transaction handling for performance.
DaisyUI
How is state management handled in DaisyUI boilerplates?
DaisyUI 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 DaisyUI's patterns for global state, local component state, and server state synchronization.
