Starbase

Starbase

A Claude-first front-end launchpad.

Starbase is an opinionated front-end starter kit built on Vite, TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS. Claude Code sits in the co-pilot seat by design. Every convention, component, and architectural decision is shaped to make Claude generate code that actually looks like yours.

Liftoff

Open http://localhost:3000. You're in orbit.

The Mission

Getting a dev server running is the easy part. Maintaining consistency as your codebase grows? That's where things get interesting, especially when AI tooling is writing a significant chunk of your code.

Starbase puts CLAUDE.md at the center of everything. It encodes your preferences, conventions, and architectural decisions into a format that Claude Code can pattern-match against. The baseline components double as reference implementations. Teaching artifacts. When Claude generates new code in a Starbase project, it reads the flight manual and follows the plan.

The result: an accelerator, not an autopilot. AI-assisted development where the output actually feels like _your_ codebase, not a generic suggestion from the void of space.

Payload

See template/package.json for the full manifest.

The value lives in how these tools are wired together. CLAUDE.md documents the conventions. The reference components demonstrate them. ESLint enforces them mechanically. The /audit and /review skills catch the architectural stuff a linter can't reach. It's a closed loop: Claude reads the conventions, generates code that follows them, and the toolchain validates the output.

The ESLint setup is a good example of this philosophy in action. The config goes well beyond recommended defaults, pulling in nine plugins: React best practices (react-x, react-dom, react-hooks), accessibility (jsx-a11y),…