Staart API is a Node.js backend starter for SaaS startups written in TypeScript. It has all the features you need to build a SaaS product, like user management and authentication, billing, organizations, GDPR tools, API keys, rate limiting, superadmin impersonation, and more.

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Staart API is build to work with Staart UI, the frontend PWA starter for SaaS startups.

⚠️ v3 BETA WARNING: The master branch and all 3.x releases are currently in beta. For production, use v1.x instead.

⭐ Features

🆕 New in v2

Casbin-powered permission management
JWT-powered single-use coupon codes
Redis-powered queues for outbound emails and logs
Cloud agnostic, no longer specific to AWS
Staart scripts for building and deploying
Async JSON response and smart controller injection

🔐 Security

JWT-powered authentication and user management
TOTP-powered two-factor authentication (2FA)
OAuth2 login with third-party accounts
Location-based login verification
Security event logging and history

💳 SaaS

Stripe-powered recurring billing
Teams with managed user permissions
CRUD invoices, methods, transactions, etc.
Rich HTML transactional emails
GDPR-compliant data export and delete
API gateway with API keys and rate limiting
Domain verification with auto-approve members

👩‍💻 Developer utilities

OvernightJS-powered decorators and class syntax
Injection-proof helpers for querying databases
Data pagination and CRUD utilities for all tables
Authorization helpers
Caching and invalidation for common queries
User impersonation for super-admin
Easy redirect rules in YAML
ElasticSearch-powered server and event logs

🛠 Usage

Use this template or fork this repository
Install dependencies with npm install
Add a .env file based on config.ts.
Create MariaDB/MySQL tables based on schema.sql
Add your controllers in the ./src/controllers directory
Generate your app.ts file using staart controllers
Build with staart build and deploy with staart launch

Updating Staart

To update your installation of Staart, run the following:

staart update api

If you've used the "Use this template" option on GitHub, you might have to force pull from staart/api the first time since the histories wouldn't match. You can use the flag --allow-unrelated-histories in this case.

💻 Docs

View docs site →

View TypeDoc →

View API demo →

View frontend demo →

🏗️ Built with Staart

🏁 Staart Ecosystem

The Staart ecosystem consists of open-source projects to build your SaaS startup, written in TypeScript.

Package
🛠️ Staart API	Node.js backend with RESTful APIs
🌐 Staart UI	Frontend Vue.js Progressive Web App
📑 Staart Site	Static site generator for docs/helpdesk
📱 Staart Native	React Native app for Android and iOS
🎨 Staart.css	Sass/CSS framework and utilities
📦 Staart Packages	Helper functions and utility packages