Getting Started
Welcome to Better Fullstack
Pick a frontend, backend, data layer, auth provider, services, and tooling. The CLI writes a working project you own. Nothing installs globally, and Node.js 20 or newer is the only requirement.
npm create better-fullstack@latestQuick StartScaffold, run, and verify your first project.CLI ReferenceScript a stack with flags, templates, or project shapes.Build with AIHand the work to a coding agent through MCP or a skill.
Recent releases
- Libraries for PHP, Ruby, Crystal, and Elixirv2.8.1PHP, Ruby, and Crystal projects can now pick frameworks, ORMs, auth, jobs, caching, and more. Elixir gets five new categories.
- CLI discovery, jobs, and vector searchv2.8.0New CLI commands, jobs, vector search, Go migrations, and Python logging, plus fixes across generated apps.
- Future Stack presetv2.7.0Solid, Effect, and the TanStack libraries in one project, with a showcase app that uses each library.
- A new look and fresher dependenciesv2.6.8The homepage and builder are redesigned, and generated projects ship with updated dependencies.
Build a stack
- Stack BuilderBuild, preview, run, and download a project in the browser.
- Choosing a StackPick a frontend, backend, database, auth provider, and deploy target.
- EcosystemsSee what each language ecosystem scaffolds.
- Multi-EcosystemCombine languages in one project.
- Release VerificationInspect current release evidence and its limits.
- Project LifecycleMap every command to the moment you need it.
Change an existing project
- CLI Add
addchanges the selected stack of a generated project. - Status, Check, Update
updaterefreshes templates under review andcheckverifies the build. - MCP ServerLet an agent plan, preview, and apply changes through structured tools.
- Install for Coding AgentsRegister the MCP server and both skills for every detected agent.