SlimSaaS is a complete starter kit that combines Django and React to help entrepreneurs build SaaS applications quickly and efficiently. It provides over 75 hours of development time savings (equivalent to approximately $15,000 at $200/hr).
The stack includes:
A Django Backend with Django ORM, django all-auth, djstripe, and Django REST framework
A React SPA with TypeScript services for payment and auth integration
An Astro Static Site for marketing and blog content with excellent SEO
Docker containers for easy deployment
Traefik for networking with automatic SSL
Performance Focused
SlimSaaS achieves an impressive 99/100 PageSpeed Insights score with fast loading metrics:
Empower enterprise solutions with our Next.js & Django SaaS Boilerplate. Built for peak performance, scalability, and reliability.
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
PostgreSQL
Stripe
Django
Django Ninja
Next.js
Features:
Admin
API
Auth
Blog
Emails
Feedback
Google OAuth
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Frequently Asked Questions
JavaScript
What makes JavaScript ideal for SaaS development?
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.
Python
What makes Python ideal for SaaS development?
Python excels in SaaS development due to its robust ecosystem, strong typing capabilities, and excellent library support. Python 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.
Astro
What Astro-specific architecture patterns are implemented?
Astro boilerplates leverage the framework's native architecture patterns including its routing system, middleware pipeline, and controller/handler structure. They implement Astro's conventions for separating concerns, dependency injection, and service layer patterns. The codebase follows Astro's best practices for organizing models, views/components, and business logic to ensure maintainability as your application grows.
Django
What Django-specific architecture patterns are implemented?
Django boilerplates leverage the framework's native architecture patterns including its routing system, middleware pipeline, and controller/handler structure. They implement Django's conventions for separating concerns, dependency injection, and service layer patterns. The codebase follows Django's best practices for organizing models, views/components, and business logic to ensure maintainability as your application grows.
React
What React-specific architecture patterns are implemented?
React boilerplates leverage the framework's native architecture patterns including its routing system, middleware pipeline, and controller/handler structure. They implement React's conventions for separating concerns, dependency injection, and service layer patterns. The codebase follows React'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).
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).
Django ORM
What Django ORM-specific features are leveraged in these boilerplates?
Django 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 Django ORM'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.
Python
What Python-specific tools and libraries are included?
Python 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 Python. You'll get pre-configured toolchains that enforce best practices, automated testing pipelines, and development environments optimized for Python 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.
Astro
How does Astro's ORM/database layer work in these boilerplates?
Astro 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 Astro's specific features like eager loading, query scopes, and transaction handling for performance.
