Masterfully crafted using best practices on top of the latest and greatest battle-tested platforms, tools, and standards trusted by millions of developers around the world.
Your Molecule is preassembled Full-stack TypeScript using Node, PostgreSQL, React, and Styled Components. Built with popular libraries. You have full control. Includes users, auth, themes, payments, notifications, emails, uploads, and more.
Clone your Molecule's code Carefully crafted using industry standards. Your Molecule includes thorough docs, tests, and step-by-step instructions. Polished. Simple. Powerfully flexible. No vendor lock-in. It's all yours.
Your app is primed for launch! Everything you need for immediate release on the web, iOS (App Store), Android (Google Play), macOS, Windows, and/or Linux. Skip the tedious, time-consuming integrations. Launch fast. Iterate faster.
Everything you need Built to perfection
Start with a polished frontend and backend
Every integration is fully functional
TypeScript App + API Fully customizable app & API. Strong type definitions. Perfect for clarity of interfaces and intent. Great tooling.PostgreSQL Database Quick and easy setup of the necessary roles and tables. It is plain, unopinionated SQL, so you can easily customize it to your needs.React Rendering Predictably architected using best practices. Pure functions everywhere. Simple hooks manage internal state and shared application state.Styled Components Your UI is a composition of styled components using native element props you already know. You have full control of the look and feel via CSS.Themes Users can cycle through themes. Comes with light and dark. Automatically selected by user's OS preference.Unit Tests Your app and API are composed entirely of pure functions, which makes it easy to cover every use case with unit tests, tested with Jest.User Authentication Sign up with a username and password or social login via OAuth. Two-factor auth (2FA) is included. Uses JSON web tokens, paired for CSRF protection.OAuth Providers Users can log in via Google, Twitter, GitHub, and/or GitLab. Adding more providers is quick and easy.User Subscriptions Seamlessly handles cross-platform user subscriptions. Covers requirements for app stores - clear user capabilities, upgrades, expiration, and renewal.Device Manager Users can manage their logged in devices with a device manager. Rename devices and/or revoke their auth token.Emails Your API will send emails via AWS SES for things like password resets and whatever else you need. Easily change to a different mailer transport if necessary.Push Notifications Set up push notifications for every platform in minutes. Simultaneously push notifications to any number of devices on every platform.Stripe Payments Handles payments for Web, macOS, Windows, and Linux. Includes endpoints for web hooks and handles cross-platform user subscriptions.Apple Pay Handles payments for iOS using the native interface that users expect. Required for the App Store if your app has payments of any kind.Google Pay Handles payments for Android using the native interface that users expect. Required for the Play Store if your app has payments of any kind.Uploads (File Storage) Uses a custom, simple multipart parser to efficiently stream incoming files to your S3 bucket without hogging resources. File info is readily available.Deployment (CI/CD) Connect your git repositories and push commits to automatically build, test, and deploy your app and API to Digital Ocean. Easy stack upgrades, free automatic SSL, and DDoS mitigation.Logging Gain insight into what's happening in your app and API. Uses Loglevel, a minimal, lightweight logging library for level-based logging and filtering.Package Manager Install packages with NPM, the default package manager included with Node.js. Relied upon by more than 11 million developers worldwide.Documentation Every line of code is thoroughly explained and documented. TypeDoc converts comments, examples, type definitions, and markdown to an easily navigable, highly readable static site.Cross-Platform Support Capacitor and Electron allow your app to work the same on the Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux, with native support, and without managing entirely separate apps.
Rock solid foundation Built to scale
Custom made for teams, startups, and indie devs
Unmatched developer experience (DX)
High standards for you and your team
Why Molecule.dev?
We make the absolute best full-stack app starters
Instead of months of work and possible burnout, you'll have an app capable of release on every platform in less than a day.
Step-by-step instructions tell you exactly what to do, from useful IDE extensions to screenshots required for app store submissions.
Includes everything you need to know about obscure app store and 3rd party integration requirements so nothing slows you down.
Save valuable time. Skip the tedious integrations. No unexpected setbacks. Everything already works. Focus on what matters most to your business.
Save precious mental energy. The hard decisions are made for you. All the pieces fit perfectly together. Manageable and intuitively extendable.
Built by experienced professionals. Every feature chosen by you is seamlessly integrated for every platform using predictable design patterns.
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You pay for only the features and integrations you need
F.A.Q.
What exactly am I getting?
You're getting source code for a fully functional, full-stack application, both front-end and back-end, complete with thorough documentation, tests, guides, and tutorials. It's all industry standard tools, polished and with no vendor lock-in. The app is yours to do whatever you want with it.
As soon as you've selected and submitted every option you want for your Molecule, you'll be given a command to run which will clone the relevant git repositories to your machine.
Free and subscribed users will use our public repositories on GitHub, while users with a premium license will use our private repositories. The code is mostly the same, with the exception that free users rely on the Molecule.dev API for things like emails and in-app purchase receipt verification, while users with a premium license will not rely on the Molecule.dev API for anything.
What if I already have an app?
Every Molecule is extremely modular, so you can quickly pull what you need from your Molecule into your existing app.
It's usually just a matter of copying a few modules (files) and passing data from your existing app into the relevant functions and components.
What about updates?
Molecules are fairly stable, but any updates will be visible to you as git commits and/or pull requests, possibly with accompanying discussion.
We'll notify you of any critical updates.
What about licensing?
All of the public code available on GitHub is Apache 2.0 licensed.
The code on our private servers, available to users who have purchased a premium license, uses a modified Apache 2.0 license which excludes source redistribution. In other words, you can do whatever you want with it as long as you keep the source code private.
I want something that is currently not an option. Will you add it for me?
Probably! Just let us know, and there's a good chance we'll add the option if it makes sense.
You can request anything - different programming languages, different databases, containerization, load balancers, websockets, caching, CI/CD integration, etc.
We have a lot planned for the future, which we prioritize based on your feedback.
Can I swap or add more options to my Molecule later on, after it's already been built?
Yes! It is recommended that you start with every option you think you'll need, but if for example you'd rather start with a light infrastructure and upgrade later, you can do that. Swaps and upgrades are usually just a matter of running a couple of basic git commands.
Will you help me with my app?
Of course! We're happy to explain inner workings, design decisions and philosophies, and how we might approach whatever it is you're building.
We love feedback, as it helps improve documentation, code, and tutorials.
If you need someone to build your app or train your team, we can do that too.
How is this different from other solutions?
Other solutions do either too much or too little.
With too much, the bloat weighs down your app, slows down development, increases your costs, and can be overwhelming to sift through.
With too little, you expend a lot of energy, time, and money building out basic core functionality which can lead to decision fatigue, burnout, and failure.
You can find templates and starter kits for fairly cheap, but they are generally not a full-stack, complete solution and will not scale without significantly more work.
With Molecule.dev, you get exactly what you need for building the features that make you stand out from the rest, without being locked into any particular ecosystem or paradigm. It's designed to scale to any number of users, and it's all yours, made specifically for you.
Think of it as hiring some of the best of the best to build the most solid foundation possible for your application, relatively future-proof and customized for your individual needs.