A powerful CLI tool for bootstrapping Go APIs, frontend clients, and full-stack monorepos with best practices built-in. Draft helps you quickly scaffold production-ready projects — a standalone Go API, a standalone Nuxt/Vue client, or both wired together in a single monorepo.

Features

🚀 Quick Project Scaffolding - Generate complete projects with a single command
🧩 Three Project Shapes - API only, client only, or a full-stack monorepo combining both
🔄 Multiple API Types - Support for both HTTP (REST) and gRPC architectures
🖼️ Multiple Client Frameworks - Nuxt or Vue, built on top of the official nuxi/create-vue tooling so the boilerplate always stays current
📦 Service Generation - Easily create new services with proper structure
🎯 Handler Generation - Generate HTTP or gRPC handlers on-demand
🔐 Cryptographic Key Generator - Built-in secure key generation
🛠️ Pre-configured Tooling - Automatic installation of essential Go tools
📝 Template-based - Consistent code generation using embedded templates

Installation

From Source

git clone [email protected]:FernandoJVideira/draft.git
cd draft
make build

Build for Different Platforms

# macOS (ARM64)
make mac

# Linux (AMD64)
make linux

# Windows (AMD64)
make windows

# Windows (ARM64)
make win-arm

The compiled binary will be named draft_<os>_<arch> (e.g. draft_darwin_arm64, or draft_windows_amd64.exe on Windows).

Usage

Create a New Project

draft new

Prompts you to pick a project shape — API, Client, or Full Stack (monorepo) — then runs the matching flow below. Each shape is also available directly as its own subcommand if you already know what you want.

Create a New API Project

draft new api

This interactive command will:

Prompt you for a project name (module name)
Ask you to select an API type (HTTP REST or gRPC)
Scaffold the complete project structure
Install required development tools
Run go mod tidy to organize dependencies

Tools Automatically Installed:

air - Live reload for Go apps
golangci-lint - Go linters aggregator
mockgen - Mock generation for testing
sqlc - SQL compiler for type-safe database code
migrate - Database migration tool
swag - Swagger documentation (HTTP only)
protoc-gen-* - Protocol Buffer generators (gRPC only)

Create a New Client Project

draft new client

Prompts for a project name
Prompts you to pick a framework — Nuxt or Vue
Scaffolds the base app via the official tooling (nuxi init for Nuxt, create-vue + shadcn-vue for Vue), so the generated boilerplate, dependency versions, and lockfile are always current rather than pinned by Draft
Layers a Draft-maintained overlay on top: an auth store (login/logout/register/token refresh), route guards, API composable, and pages for login/signup/profile/organizations/email verification/invites — all wired up to talk to a Draft-generated API out of the box

Both frameworks produce a comparable app: Nuxt UI + Tailwind for Nuxt, shadcn-vue + Tailwind for Vue.

Create a New Monorepo Project

draft new monorepo

Runs the API flow and the client flow together under one root, wired up as a single project:

apps/api — the scaffolded Go API
apps/client — the scaffolded Nuxt or Vue client
Root-level go.work, pnpm-workspace.yaml, docker-compose.yml, and Justfile tying both together

Generate a New Service

draft new service

Creates a new service file in internal/service/ with:

Service interface definition
Service struct implementation
Compile-time interface checks

Generate a New Handler

draft new handler

Creates a new handler in the appropriate directory:

HTTP handlers → internal/handlers/http/
gRPC handlers → internal/handlers/grpc/

Generate a Cryptographic Key

draft key
draft key --size 48

Generates a secure random key for use in your application (default and minimum size: 32 characters). Passing --size below 32 is rejected rather than silently substituted.

Check Version

draft version

Project Structure

API

your-project/
├── cmd/
│   └── api/
│       └── main.go
├── internal/
│   ├── handlers/
│   │   ├── http/    (if HTTP selected)
│   │   └── grpc/    (if gRPC selected)
│   └── service/
├── proto/           (if gRPC selected)
├── pb/              (if gRPC selected)
└── go.mod

Client

your-client/
├── app/                  (Nuxt) or src/ (Vue)
│   ├── stores/auth.ts
│   ├── composables/useApi.ts
│   ├── pages/ or views/
│   └── ...
├── nuxt.config.ts        (Nuxt)  or  vite.config.ts + components.json  (Vue)
└── package.json

Monorepo

your-project/
├── apps/
│   ├── api/       (Go API, its own go.mod)
│   └── client/    (Nuxt or Vue client)
├── go.work
├── pnpm-workspace.yaml
├── docker-compose.yml
└── Justfile

Requirements

Go 1.25.5 or higher
Make (for building from source)
pnpm and npx (Node.js) — required for client and monorepo scaffolding
protoc — required only for gRPC API projects

Dependencies

Cobra - CLI framework
promptui - Interactive prompts
golang.org/x/text - Text processing utilities

Development

Build

make build

Run with Version Flag

make version

Sync Templates

Draft's embedded API/client templates are synced from a reference monorepo checked out as a git submodule (assets/testdata/template). After updating that submodule, regenerate the embedded copies with:

go run tools/sync_templates.go

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Author

Built by LKResuts for internal usage to bootstrap Go APIs.