Codeboiler

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Inspiration

We’ve all been there — sometimes we forget the steps to set up a React project from scratch, and it can get pretty frustrating. We wanted a simple solution to generate boilerplate code for most of our projects so we could dive straight into the fun stuff. That's how CodeBoiler was born!

What it does

CodeBoiler is both a WebApp and a CLI tool that helps you generate your project structure in no time. Whether you're building with React, Next.js, or something else, CodeBoiler makes it quick and hassle-free to get started.

How we built it

We used a stack we're pretty comfortable with: TypeScript, JavaScript, Next.js, and Node.js. This gave us the flexibility to build both the web interface and the CLI functionality smoothly.

Challenges we ran into

We’re especially proud of making JWT token authentication work seamlessly with our CLI, which lets users authenticate directly from the command line. Plus, we tackled some tricky GitHub API authentication bugs that we squashed along the way. Getting all of that to work smoothly was a big win for us!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Honestly, we’re just proud that we brought everything together in the end. It feels great to have a working product that solves a real problem we’ve faced ourselves.

What we learned

Well, first off — it’s hot as hell in Arizona! But on a more serious note, we learned a ton about session management and some deeper backend stuff that will definitely help us in future projects.

What's next for Codeboiler

We’ve got big plans! Next up, we want to introduce an AI Copilot feature for even easier text editing. Using Claude, we aim to generate file context for each folder, making it super simple to understand the overall project structure and flow.