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@latest

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 Addadd changes the selected stack of a generated project.
• Status, Check, Updateupdate refreshes templates under review and check verifies 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.