My ideal is a starter that offers a nice blend of microservices and configures them for me just enough to get them working in easy-to-manage and organized way. Most importantly, they are all optional and easily removable.
I do this with npm scripts for "compose", "start", "stop", and "reset" for every service and tie it all together with dotenv for environment vars. Currently, I have dockerized Traefik (partially), Webpack (dev server only so far), Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PostgREST, Swagger UI, PgTyped, and MongoDB under this and will soon also dockerize the Express-based RESTish API feature.
I do this with npm scripts for "compose", "start", "stop", and "reset" for every service and tie it all together with dotenv for environment vars. Currently, I have dockerized Traefik (partially), Webpack (dev server only so far), Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PostgREST, Swagger UI, PgTyped, and MongoDB under this and will soon also dockerize the Express-based RESTish API feature.
https://github.com/dietrich-stein/typescript-pgtyped-starter