Staart is a Node.js backend starter for SaaS startups written in TypeScript. It has built-in user management and authentication, billing, organizations, GDPR tools, and more.

Works with Staart UI, the frontend starter for SaaS.

⭐ Features

🔐 Security

• Authentication and user management with JWT
• Two-factor authentication with TOTP
• Setup multiple emails for each account
• OAuth2 login with third-party accounts
• Location-based login verification
• Security event logging and history

💳 SaaS

• Subscriptions management with Stripe
• Organizations, teams, and user permissions
• Invoices, billing, credit cards, payments
• Rich HTML transactional emails with SES
• GDPR-proof data export and delete
• Affiliates and commission management
• API key management with rate limiting

👩‍💻 Developer utilities

• Decorators and class syntax with OvernightJS
• Injection-proof helpers for querying databases
• Data pagination and CRUD utilities for all tables
• Authorization helpers (can a user do this?)
• TypeScript interfaces for tables (ORM)
• Caching and invalidation for common queries
• User impersonation for super-admin
• Easy redirect rules in YAML

🛠 Usage

1. Fork this repository
2. Install dependencies with yarn or npm i
3. Add a .env file based on config.ts.
4. Create MariaDB/MySQL tables based on schema.sql
5. Add your controllers in the ./src/controllers directory
6. Generate your app.ts file using yarn generate-routes
7. Build with yarn build and deploy with yarn start

💻 API

Staart comes with tens of helper and CRUD methods for users, organizations, and more.

View wiki docs →

View TypeDoc →

View API demo →

View frontend demo →

👥 Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Anand Chowdhary 💻 📖 🎨

reallinfo 🎨

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

📄 License

• Code: MIT
• Logo and assets: CC BY 4.0