Complete reference for all 40+ nself service templates.

Type: Real-time WebSocket server with TypeScript

Features:

• Type-safe event definitions
• Redis adapter ready for horizontal scaling
• Room and namespace support
• Presence tracking
• Broadcasting
• Authentication middleware
• Health checks
• Graceful shutdown

Generated Files:

services/<name>/
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
├── Dockerfile
├── README.md
└── src/
    └── server.ts    # Complete Socket.IO server

Usage:

nself service scaffold realtime --template socketio-ts --port 3101

Perfect For:

• Chat applications
• Real-time dashboards
• Live notifications
• Collaborative editing
• Online gaming backends
• WebRTC signaling

Dependencies:

• socket.io ^4.7.2
• express ^4.18.2
• cors ^2.8.5
• typescript ^5.2.0

JavaScript version of Socket.IO server. Same features as socketio-ts but without TypeScript.

Type: Minimalist web framework with TypeScript

Features:

• Lightweight and flexible
• Middleware system
• Routing
• Error handling
• Health checks
• CORS configured

Usage:

nself service scaffold api --template express-ts --port 4000

Perfect For:

• Simple REST APIs
• Microservices
• Prototypes
• Learning projects

Dependencies:

• express ^4.18.2
• cors ^2.8.5
• @types/express ^4.17.17
• typescript ^5.2.0

JavaScript version. Same features without TypeScript.

Type: High-performance web framework with TypeScript

Features:

• Ultra-fast (benchmarks show 65k+ req/sec)
• JSON schema validation
• Automatic serialization
• Plugin architecture
• Logging with Pino
• TypeScript support

Usage:

nself service scaffold api --template fastify-ts --port 4000

Perfect For:

• High-throughput APIs
• Performance-critical services
• Microservices with validation
• JSON APIs

Dependencies:

• fastify ^4.24.0
• @fastify/cors ^8.4.0
• @fastify/helmet ^11.1.0
• typescript ^5.2.0

JavaScript version with same performance benefits.

Type: Ultra-fast edge-ready framework

Features:

• Extremely lightweight (12KB)
• Edge runtime support (Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy)
• Fast routing
• Middleware
• Type-safe

Usage:

nself service scaffold edge --template hono-ts --port 3000

Perfect For:

• Edge functions
• Serverless APIs
• Cloudflare Workers
• Ultra-fast APIs

Dependencies:

• hono ^3.9.0
• typescript ^5.2.0

JavaScript version for edge deployments.

Type: Progressive Node.js framework

Features:

• TypeScript-first
• Dependency injection
• Modular architecture
• Decorators
• Guards and interceptors
• Database integration (TypeORM)
• Swagger/OpenAPI
• Testing utilities

Usage:

nself service scaffold backend --template nest-ts --port 4000

Perfect For:

• Enterprise applications
• Complex business logic
• Team projects
• Scalable architectures
• Microservices
• GraphQL APIs

Dependencies:

• @nestjs/core ^10.2.0
• @nestjs/platform-express ^10.2.0
• @nestjs/common ^10.2.0
• reflect-metadata ^0.1.13
• typescript ^5.2.0

JavaScript version (less common, TypeScript recommended).

Type: Redis-backed job queue with TypeScript

Features:

• Type-safe job definitions
• Job priorities
• Delayed jobs
• Job retries with backoff
• Rate limiting
• Job events
• Sandboxed processors
• Redis-backed persistence

Usage:

nself service scaffold worker --template bullmq-ts --port 3102

Perfect For:

• Email sending
• Image processing
• Video transcoding
• Report generation
• Batch processing
• Scheduled tasks

Dependencies:

• bullmq ^4.14.0
• ioredis ^5.3.0
• typescript ^5.2.0

JavaScript version of BullMQ worker.

Type: Durable workflow orchestration

Features:

• Durable execution
• Workflow versioning
• Activity retries
• Saga pattern support
• Long-running processes
• Fault tolerance

Usage:

nself service scaffold workflows --template temporal-ts --port 3103

Perfect For:

• Multi-step business processes
• Payment processing
• Order fulfillment
• ETL pipelines
• Saga orchestration

Dependencies:

• @temporalio/worker ^1.8.0
• @temporalio/client ^1.8.0
• typescript ^5.2.0

JavaScript version of Temporal worker.

Type: End-to-end typesafe APIs

Features:

• Full TypeScript inference
• No code generation
• Autocomplete everywhere
• Zod validation
• Minimal bundle size

Perfect For:

• Full-stack TypeScript apps
• Type-safe APIs
• Monorepos
• Next.js backends

Type: Bun runtime server

Features:

• Extremely fast startup
• Built-in bundler
• Native TypeScript
• npm-compatible

Perfect For:

• Development servers
• Fast prototypes
• Modern JavaScript

Type: Deno runtime server

Features:

• Secure by default
• TypeScript native
• Web standard APIs
• No node_modules

Perfect For:

• Secure services
• Modern TypeScript
• Serverless functions

Type: Basic Node.js HTTP server

Features:

• Minimal dependencies
• Built-in HTTP module
• Starting point for custom servers

Perfect For:

• Learning
• Custom implementations
• Minimal overhead

Type: Modern, fast web framework for Python APIs

Features:

• Automatic OpenAPI docs (Swagger UI at /docs)
• Pydantic validation
• Async/await support
• Type hints
• Dependency injection
• Security utilities (OAuth2, JWT)
• CORS middleware

Usage:

nself service scaffold api --template fastapi --port 8000

Perfect For:

• Modern REST APIs
• Microservices
• ML model serving
• Real-time APIs
• Data validation-heavy apps

Dependencies:

• fastapi ^0.104.0
• uvicorn[standard] ^0.24.0
• pydantic ^2.4.0

Example Code:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()

class Item(BaseModel):
    name: str
    price: float

@app.post("/items/")
async def create_item(item: Item):
    return {"item": item}

Type: Lightweight WSGI web framework

Features:

• Minimal and flexible
• Jinja2 templates
• Extension system
• Simple to learn
• RESTful request dispatching

Usage:

nself service scaffold api --template flask --port 5000

Perfect For:

• Simple APIs
• Prototypes
• Learning Python web development
• Microservices

Dependencies:

• flask ^3.0.0
• flask-cors ^4.0.0
• gunicorn ^21.2.0

Type: Powerful toolkit for building Web APIs

Features:

• Django ORM
• Admin panel
• Authentication/authorization
• Serialization
• Browsable API
• Class-based views

Usage:

nself service scaffold backend --template django-rest --port 8000

Perfect For:

• Full-featured APIs
• Complex data models
• Admin interfaces
• Enterprise applications

Dependencies:

• django ^4.2.0
• djangorestframework ^3.14.0
• psycopg2-binary ^2.9.0

Type: Distributed task queue

Features:

• Async task execution
• Scheduled tasks (cron-like)
• Task routing
• Result backends
• Monitoring
• Multi-worker support

Usage:

nself service scaffold worker --template celery --port 5555

Perfect For:

• Background processing
• Scheduled jobs
• Email sending
• Report generation
• Long-running tasks

Dependencies:

• celery ^5.3.0
• redis ^5.0.0
• kombu ^5.3.0

Type: Distributed computing framework

Features:

• Parallel processing
• Distributed data processing
• ML workload distribution
• Actor model
• Task scheduling

Usage:

nself service scaffold compute --template ray --port 8265

Perfect For:

• ML training
• Data processing
• Parallel computation
• Scientific computing

Type: Large Language Model integration service

Features:

• OpenAI API integration
• LLM provider integration
• Streaming responses
• RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
• Function calling
• Conversation history
• Prompt templates

Usage:

nself service scaffold ai --template agent-llm --port 8001

Perfect For:

• Chatbots
• Content generation
• Code assistance
• Question answering
• Summarization

Dependencies:

• openai ^1.3.0
• llm-providers ^0.7.0
• langchain ^0.0.340
• chromadb ^0.4.0

Type: Computer vision service

Features:

• Image classification
• Object detection
• OCR
• Image generation
• Face recognition
• Preprocessing pipelines

Usage:

nself service scaffold vision --template agent-vision --port 8002

Perfect For:

• Image analysis
• Document processing
• Visual search
• Quality control
• Surveillance

Dependencies:

• opencv-python ^4.8.0
• pillow ^10.1.0
• torch ^2.1.0
• transformers ^4.35.0

Type: Data analytics service

Features:

• Data processing with pandas
• Statistical analysis
• Visualization
• Report generation
• Data export

Usage:

nself service scaffold analytics --template agent-analytics --port 8003

Perfect For:

• Business intelligence
• Data dashboards
• Report automation
• KPI tracking

Dependencies:

• pandas ^2.1.0
• numpy ^1.26.0
• matplotlib ^3.8.0
• plotly ^5.17.0

Type: ML model training service

Features:

• Model training
• Hyperparameter tuning
• Experiment tracking (MLflow)
• Model versioning
• Model serving

Usage:

nself service scaffold training --template agent-training --port 8004

Perfect For:

• ML model development
• AutoML pipelines
• Model experimentation
• A/B testing models

Dependencies:

• scikit-learn ^1.3.0
• tensorflow ^2.14.0
• pytorch ^2.1.0
• mlflow ^2.8.0

Type: Time series analysis and forecasting

Features:

• Forecasting models
• Anomaly detection
• Trend analysis
• Seasonality decomposition
• Prophet integration

Usage:

nself service scaffold forecasting --template agent-timeseries --port 8005

Perfect For:

• Sales forecasting
• Demand prediction
• Anomaly detection
• Financial analysis

Dependencies:

• prophet ^1.1.0
• statsmodels ^0.14.0
• pandas ^2.1.0
• numpy ^1.26.0

Type: HTTP web framework

Features:

• Fast routing (40x faster than martini)
• Middleware support
• JSON validation
• Error management
• Crash-free
• Group routing

Usage:

nself service scaffold api --template gin --port 8080

Perfect For:

• High-performance APIs
• Microservices
• RESTful services
• JSON APIs

Dependencies:

github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.9.1

Type: Express-inspired framework

Features:

• Express-like API
• Fast HTTP engine (fasthttp)
• Low memory footprint
• Middleware
• Routing
• WebSocket support

Usage:

nself service scaffold api --template fiber --port 8080

Perfect For:

• Developers from Node.js
• High-performance needs
• Microservices

Dependencies:

github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2 v2.50.0

Type: High-performance framework

Features:

• Optimized router
• Middleware
• Data binding
• HTTP/2 support
• Template rendering

Usage:

nself service scaffold api --template echo --port 8080

Perfect For:

• RESTful APIs
• Microservices
• High-traffic services

Dependencies:

github.com/labstack/echo/v4 v4.11.3

Type: High-performance RPC framework

Features:

• Protocol Buffers
• Streaming (unary, server, client, bidirectional)
• Language-agnostic
• Service mesh ready
• HTTP/2 based

Usage:

nself service scaffold rpc --template grpc --port 50051

Perfect For:

• Microservice communication
• Low-latency services
• Polyglot architectures
• Service mesh

Dependencies:

google.golang.org/grpc v1.59.0
google.golang.org/protobuf v1.31.0

• Full-stack MVC framework
• Active Record ORM
• Asset pipeline
• Scaffolding

• Lightweight DSL
• Minimal and flexible
• Perfect for small APIs

• Actor-based framework
• Extremely fast
• Type-safe
• Async/await

• Enterprise framework
• Auto-configuration
• Embedded servers
• Production-ready

• ASP.NET Core
• Cross-platform
• High performance
• Cloud-ready

• Modern PHP framework
• Eloquent ORM
• Blade templates
• Artisan CLI

• Real-time capabilities
• LiveView
• Channels (WebSocket)
• Fault-tolerant

• Asynchronous
• Coroutines
• Type-safe DSL
• Lightweight

• Server-side Swift
• Type-safe
• Async/await
• Fluent ORM

• Modern C++ web framework
• High performance
• Swagger integration
• Zero-copy streams

• OpenResty framework
• Fast (nginx-based)
• MoonScript support
• PostgreSQL integration

• Blazingly fast
• Memory-safe
• Low overhead
• HTTP/1.1 support

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