What is epic-stack?

The Epic Stack is a starter template for building full-stack web applications. Instead of spending days (or weeks) choosing which tools to use, how to organize your project, and how to configure everything together, this template makes those decisions for you upfront and delivers a working project you can start building on immediately. The template is described as opinionated, meaning the author has made specific choices about the entire development setup based on years of building web apps. Those choices cover things like how authentication is handled, how the database is set up, how tests are written, how the application is deployed, and dozens of other decisions that teams usually debate at the start of a project. The goal is to skip that debate entirely and start writing the actual features of your product. The project is created by Kent C. Dodds, a well-known web development educator, and is built around the Remix web framework. To start a new project from the template, you run a single command in your terminal. The README is brief and points to a separate docs folder for full details, along with a recorded talk by the author explaining the thinking behind the choices. Community support is available through GitHub discussions and a Discord server. This is a reference template, not a library you install into an existing project. It is most useful when starting something new and wanting a solid, pre-configured foundation rather than piecing together tools yourself.