create-turbo-stack

Scaffold production-ready Turborepo monorepos in seconds, not days.

create-turbo-stack is an opinionated, interactive CLI that generates fully wired Turborepo workspaces with real-world patterns: database layer, auth, API routing, shared UI, environment validation, cross-package Tailwind CSS, and more.

Why?

create-turbo gives you a near-empty skeleton. Getting from skeleton to production-ready requires days of manual wiring:

• Tailwind 4 @source directives across packages (miss one → silent CSS purging)
• catalog: dependency management synchronized across all workspaces
• @t3-oss/env-nextjs validation chains per app
• tRPC router wiring, Supabase client setup, auth middleware
• TypeScript config inheritance chains

create-turbo-stack automates all of this.

Quick Start

npx create-turbo-stack my-project

Or use a preset:

npx create-turbo-stack --preset https://create-turbo-stack.dev/s/saas-starter.json

Features

• Interactive scaffolding — Choose your stack: database, API, auth, CSS, integrations
• Wiring engine — CSS @source, catalog deps, env chains, tsconfig inheritance — all automated
• Incremental additions — create-turbo-stack add app, add package, add integration
• Preset system — Save, share, and reuse stack configurations (inspired by shadcn registry)
• Web builder — Visual stack configurator with live file tree preview at create-turbo-stack.dev
• MCP server — AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor) can scaffold via Model Context Protocol
• Idempotent operations — Safe to re-run, won't duplicate or overwrite manual changes

Stack Options

Category	Options
Package Manager	bun, pnpm, npm, yarn
Database	Supabase, Drizzle, Prisma, none
API	tRPC v11, Hono, Next.js API Routes, none
Auth	Supabase Auth, Better Auth, Clerk, NextAuth, Lucia, none
CSS	Tailwind 4, Tailwind 3, vanilla, CSS Modules
UI	shadcn/ui, Radix (raw), none
Apps	Next.js, Expo, Hono, Vite (React/Vue), SvelteKit, Astro, Remix, Tauri
Integrations	Sentry, PostHog, Plausible, React Email + Resend, Upstash, Vercel AI SDK

Usage

Create a new project

npx create-turbo-stack

Interactive prompts guide you through every decision.

Add to an existing project

# Add a new app
npx create-turbo-stack add app

# Add a new package
npx create-turbo-stack add package

# Add an integration (e.g., Sentry, analytics)
npx create-turbo-stack add integration

Use a preset

# Built-in presets
npx create-turbo-stack --preset minimal
npx create-turbo-stack --preset saas-starter
npx create-turbo-stack --preset api-only

# Community presets (any URL)
npx create-turbo-stack --preset https://example.com/my-stack.json

MCP Server (for AI agents)

npx create-turbo-stack mcp

See MCP documentation for setup with Claude Code, Cursor, etc.

Community Presets

Share your stack with the community! Create a preset JSON conforming to the preset schema and host it at any URL.

# Anyone can use your preset
npx create-turbo-stack --preset https://your-site.com/your-stack.json

See Registry documentation for details on creating and publishing presets.

Project Structure

This is a Turborepo monorepo:

create-turbo-stack/
├── apps/
│   └── web/              # Landing page + builder + community presets
├── packages/
│   ├── cli/              # CLI entry point (npx create-turbo-stack)
│   ├── core/             # Platform-agnostic business logic
│   ├── schema/           # Zod schemas for presets, config, registry
│   └── templates/        # EJS template files for code generation
├── presets/              # Built-in preset definitions
└── docs/                 # Documentation

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

License

MIT