Over the past couple of days, I’ve been exploring how to build CLI tools in Node.js, and that led me to create something useful that others can directly try out.
So I decided to publish my first NPM package!
What is it?
create-pwa-boilerplate is a CLI tool to quickly scaffold a PWA boilerplate project for:
- React
- Vue
- Svelte
It’s built using:
- TypeScript
- pnpm
And you can optionally include TailwindCSS (yes/no prompt during scaffolding).
It also includes some example usages of key Web APIs inside the templates (like basic offline caching, manifest setup, etc).
NPM Link
https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-pwa-boilerplate
Usage
npx create-pwa-boilerplate
Why I built this
I often find myself needing a quick PWA starting point — and repeating the same setup steps (manifest, service worker, offline patterns, etc) can be repetitive.
So instead of doing that again and again per project…
I automated it — and packaged it — so others can use it too.
Feedback welcome
I’m very open to feedback, suggestions, improvements, or contributions.
If you try it and have ideas — I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks for reading!