Show HN: Mega Boilerplate
I'm going to go against the JS ecosystem grain and say that boilerplates are a total anti-pattern. And not because you should be doing this stuff by hand either, which is probably the second most popular answer.<p>"Boilerplate" implies copying a bunch of code into your project that should be library code but isn't because it's too poorly designed to have an API cleaner than "just fork it, YOLO". It's dramatically harder to update than something with well-designed API boundaries.<p>Your web app really isn't a unique snowflake. Shared, standardized toolchains are harder to build but once you do they're a dramatically better long-term investment.<p>In Javascript it's really just ember-cli that operates this way, which started in the Ember community and has now also been adopted by Angular.