Mantiks - Production-Ready Full-Stack Starter Kit

The Hidden Cost of Starting From Scratch

Every new project faces the same paralysis: endless decisions before writing a single feature.

Weeks of Research

"Should we use Next.js or Remix? Prisma or TypeORM? AWS or GCP?" Every decision leads to more research.

Integration Hell

Auth, database, CI/CD, monitoring, email... each integration is a rabbit hole of configuration and debugging.

Production Surprises

What works locally often breaks in production. Security, scaling, and infrastructure issues surface too late.

AI Context Limits

AI assistants struggle with inconsistent codebases. Without clear patterns, they generate incompatible code.

Team Alignment

Different developers make different choices. Inconsistency leads to technical debt from day one.

Burn Rate

A month of setup means a month of salary without shipping. For startups, that's often the difference between success and failure.

We Made 45+ Decisions So You Don't Have To

Every choice has been made, tested in production, and documented. Just clone and build.

Infrastructure

12 decisions

GCP Cloud Platform Terraform IaC Dual VPC Architecture Cloud SQL PostgreSQL Global HTTPS Load Balancer GCP Secret Manager Bastion Host + IAP Cloud NAT SSL Certificate Manager Docker Containers Health Checks Auto-scaling Setup

DevOps

8 decisions

GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Multi-stage Docker Builds Automated Deployments E2E Test Integration Artifact Caching Auto Superuser Creation Environment Management Rollback Strategy

Backend

10 decisions

NestJS Framework TypeORM with Migrations JWT RS256 Authentication Access + Refresh Tokens Winston Structured Logging Rate Limiting Email Service (Brevo) Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA Sentry Error Tracking Session Management

Frontend

10 decisions

React 19 + TypeScript Vite Build Tool Tailwind CSS Radix UI Components TanStack Query TanStack Router i18next (EN, DE) Storybook Vitest Unit Tests Cypress E2E Tests

Project Structure

5 decisions

pnpm Monorepo Workspace Packages Shared Types Consistent Naming Environment Config

AI-First Architecture

Built for the AI Coding Era

This isn't just a starter kit—it's an AI force multiplier. Consistent patterns mean AI assistants generate better code, faster.

Clear conventions that AI models can learn and follow
Comprehensive documentation for context injection
Predictable file structure for reliable code generation
Type-safe throughout so AI suggestions compile correctly

AI Assistant

User:

"Add a new API endpoint for user preferences"

AI:

I'll create this following your NestJS patterns:

- preferences.controller.ts
- preferences.service.ts
- preferences.module.ts
- dto/create-preference.dto.ts
- preference.entity.ts

All files generated and type-safe.

Trusted by Teams Shipping Real Products

This exact stack powers production applications serving thousands of users daily.

SaaS Founder

Series A Startup

"We went from idea to production in 2 weeks instead of 2 months. The infrastructure alone would have taken our team a month to set up properly."

Tech Lead

Enterprise Company

"The JWT implementation with RS256 and refresh token rotation is exactly what we needed. Production-grade security out of the box."

DevOps Engineer

Agency

"The Terraform configs and CI/CD pipeline saved us from reinventing the wheel. Everything just works in GCP."

Stop Building Infrastructure.
Start Building Your Product.

Clone the repo, run one command, and start coding features. Your AI assistant already understands the codebase.

# Clone and start building

git clone https://github.com/user/mantiks.git

cd mantiks && pnpm install

pnpm dev

# That's it. You're ready.

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