knests

Not sure "competitor" is the right word, but I started to work on my own boilerplate/project-starter some time ago[0]. I choose to use NestJS, knex and NextJS. My objective is to achieve the best tradeoffs between autogenerated-boring-stuff and easily-customize-everything (yes, including complex DB queries, especially those actually). Also, there's BlitzJS which seems to have similar objectives. There's definitely no incumbent in the Js/ts/nodejs world similar to the django/laravel/rails/mojolicious frameworks in the other, more mature, dynamic languages. https://github.com/tudorconstantin/knests

I couldn't find a satisfying NodeJS full-stack for web app development that would be have: TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, ReactJS, Material-UI, docker containers where the same backend image used for development would get deployed on production, while the UI production machine would be an nginx image with the assets generated at build time. So I created such a stack - the Knests stack (https://github.com/tudorconstantin/knests). I actually started to work on this in December, but I published it a few days ago. Please beware that in order to use it for your projects right now you'd have to be quite comfortable with the nodejs ecosystem because the whole stack is not quite tidied up.