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A boilerplate for Node.js web applications

22 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 7 stories, 15 comments · first 2014-01-27 · latest 2025-10-26

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  1. …by me over the course of many years. For a few rather simple NodeJS projects that I worked on, https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter this one caught my attention and worked like a charm. For PHP / Laravel, I use…
    comment by wprapido · 2019-12-20 · in Ask HN: What do you use to start your dev environment faster?
  2. …Platform.sh. But if I wanted to quickly put together a website to test some hypotheses, I would try https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter .
    comment by yhoiseth · 2019-01-05 · in Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
  3. …Expressjs official guide (there are more guides after routing) https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter/blob/master/READM... git clone this and add a feature or convert it into a small prototype of an app. If you're out
    comment by Can_Not · 2017-09-16 · in Modern JavaScript Tutorial
  4. …the dev busted out in a few days because he knew his way around heroku hackathon-starter / node.js https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter
    comment by MK999 · 2017-02-03 · in Ask HN: What are the higest paying technologies which have remote opportunities?
  5. Try this : https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter [Nodejs, Express framework]
    comment by rtcoms · 2017-02-03 · in Ask HN: Any starter project templates for web app?
  6. For Javascript I'd start from a project template (e.g. https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter ). This approach teaches you learn some useful defaults and how the pieces fit together, as well as where the defaults break down.
    comment by garysieling · 2016-10-04 · in How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
  7. …you can do javascript in the front and backend, I haven't used it but I think it looks interesting. https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter
    comment by 2AF3 · 2016-09-13 · in Ask HN: Which language(s) should I learn to do one-man projects and earn money?
  8. https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter https://github.com/jaredpalmer/react-production-starter
    comment by andrewhayter · 2016-08-15 · in Ask HN: What is a good React stack?
  9. …it would save. Perhaps something like a boilerplate app that does the usual stuff you need like https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter But perhaps less hackathon orientated?
    comment by tim333 · 2016-08-12 · in Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development?
  10. The real takeaway from this is that the author uses Hackathon Starter ( https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter ). I have used it for multiple projects and it gives a huge head start compared to starting from zero. Signing up, logging…
    comment by zongitsrinzler · 2016-07-21 · in How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server
  11. You might enjoy the Hackathon Starter: https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter It has much more middleware, but is easy to strip down, based on what you're building. It also has a CLI tool for some basic config.
    comment by nemild · 2015-12-24 · in Show HN: Scaffold App for Node.js, Express, Jade, Passport, MongoDB, Bootstrap
  12. …and display it to the user. I will definitely update the documention very soon. The README of https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter could fit on a screen when I first posted it on Hacker News earlier this year; it is now 1300+ lines…
    comment by sahat · 2014-08-19 · in Show HN: Satellizer – Authentication for AngularJS
  13. …creator here. I made this app using Express + Mongoose and the great Hackathon Starter framework ( https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter ), all hosted on OpenShift. I basically got a lot of college data from the IPEDS database and…
    comment by BlackJack · 2014-07-08 · in Show HN: College List Maker
  14. I came across this hackathon starter project a few weeks ago: https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter Have not used it yet, but the stack (node.js, mongodb with mongoose, express) is similar to what I use in my day job so planning to…
    comment by johnymontana · 2014-02-19 · in Ask HN: What is your hackathon or weekend project software stack?
  15. I wondered when this day would come. This project doesn't consider Linux a platform you develop on https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter#prerequisites , but rather a platform you deploy to, if that. Heroku is so abstract it could be…
    comment by tvaughan · 2014-01-27 · in Hackathon Starter – Boilerplate for Node.js web application