What Bankstack Is

Bankstack is not a framework, and despite the name, it is not banking software. The name is a play on maintainer Joseph Banks’ last name; Bankstack is not affiliated with banks or financial institutions.

It is an opinionated starting point for edge-native modern applications, including SaaS apps: a pnpm-only Nx monorepo where fast TypeScript runs at the Cloudflare edge and Supabase owns identity, data access, and row level security.

The alpha centers on create-bankstack, a published Node CLI that generates a workspace shaped like the source docs and templates in this repository. The generated project is meant to be inspectable: you can install it, run checks, build it, and decide where to connect real Cloudflare and Supabase resources.

What It Gives You

• A known monorepo shape with apps/* and packages/*.
• Astro, SvelteKit, and Hono examples that can run locally.
• Shared packages for UI primitives, Supabase boundary helpers, and utility code.
• Wrangler examples and environment examples that show where external services attach.
• Local-first verification commands that do not require hosted infrastructure.

What It Does Not Do Yet

• It does not provision Cloudflare accounts, Workers, routes, domains, or service bindings.
• It does not create Supabase projects, tables, policies, auth screens, or production secrets.
• It does not deploy the generated workspace.
• It does not include the optional Python compute layer in the v0.1 alpha.

Canonical source material: VISION.md, ARCHITECTURE_OVERVIEW.md, and the generated workspace docs under packages/create-bankstack. SETUP_GUIDE.md is retained as historical/deep-reference context, not the alpha setup entrypoint.