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Ashish Maurya
Ashish Maurya

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I Built a Drop-in Backend Starter for SaaS Products — Here's What's Inside

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If you've ever started a new SaaS project, you know the pain.

Before writing a single line of business logic, you're already setting up:

  • JWT authentication
  • Rate limiting
  • Redis caching
  • Error handling
  • Multi-tenant structure
  • Logging

It takes days. Every. Single. Time.

So I built saas-backend-kit — a drop-in Node.js/Express backend starter
that handles all of this out of the box.

What's Inside

  • ✅ JWT Auth (access + refresh tokens)
  • ✅ Redis caching layer
  • ✅ Rate limiting middleware
  • ✅ Centralized error handling
  • ✅ Multi-tenant ready structure
  • ✅ TypeScript first
  • ✅ Docker support

Install in 30 Seconds

npm install saas-backend-kit

Who Is This For?

If you're a solo developer or small team building a SaaS product on
Node.js — this saves you 2–3 days of boilerplate setup on every new project.

I built this while working on JobCard, a full-stack garage management
system for UAE auto workshops. After setting up the same backend structure
3 times across different products, I decided to package it properly.

GitHub

👉 github.com/AshishK-M/saas-backend-kit

npm

👉 npmjs.com/package/saas-backend-kit

Would love feedback from the community — what features would you want
to see next?

Drop a comment below 👇

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