sahat/hackathon-starter
Hackathon Starter
This project is a Node.js web application boilerplate designed to accelerate development by providing a pre-configured foundation with integrated routing, templating, and developer tooling. It serves as a comprehensive starter kit that includes a full-stack authentication system, a payment integration starter, and an LLM agent framework.
The framework distinguishes itself with specialized tools for AI development, including a retrieval-augmented generation implementation kit with vector search and semantic caching. It enables the creation of reasoning agents featuring tool-calling loops and real-time response streaming via server-sent events, as well as visual input processing for camera feeds.
The project covers a broad range of operational capabilities, including multi-provider identity federation with two-factor authentication, subscription payment processing, and document-based state persistence. It also incorporates a quality assurance suite featuring headless browser automation and deterministic API response mocking using recorded fixtures.
Additional utility surface includes transactional email delivery, web analytics tracking, and metadata optimization for search engines and social sharing.
Features
- Web Application Boilerplates - Provides a pre-configured foundation with integrated routing, templating, and developer tooling to accelerate development.
- Agentic LLM Frameworks - Provides an agentic framework for building autonomous AI agents with tool-calling loops and memory.
- Agentic Reasoning Loops - Implements an orchestration pattern where AI models call tools and refine answers through iterative loops.
- AI Agent Development - Provides a framework for building reasoning agents with tool execution, session persistence, and real-time streaming.
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation - Implements a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline using vector search and semantic embedding caching.
- RAG Pipelines - Implements retrieval-augmented generation pipelines using vector search and semantic embedding caching.
- AI Agents - Provides a framework for building autonomous agents with reasoning and tool-use capabilities.
- Document Databases - Uses a document-based database to permanently store application state and flexible user profiles.
- Authentication Systems - Ships a comprehensive security layer for identity management, social logins, and token revocation.
- Authentication Orchestration - Coordinates multi-provider logins, passwordless links, and second-factor authentication to secure user access.
- User Profile Management - Allows updating account details, verifying email addresses, and linking multiple identity providers.
- Social Login Integrations - Connects third-party identity providers to allow users to sign in using existing social accounts.
- Identity Verification - Verifies user identities via passwords, biometric data, or third-party providers to grant secure access.
- User Account Management - Handles account registration, login, and profile deletion using local credentials or biometric verification.
- User Authentication Systems - Manages secure user identities using passwords, biometrics, social logins, and multi-factor authentication.
- Identity Federation - Links multiple external authentication sources and local credentials to a single unified user profile.
- LLM Response Streaming - Delivers AI-generated text and internal agent reasoning logic in real-time via server-sent events.
- Visual Input Processing - Analyzes device camera feeds through large language models to enable real-time visual understanding.
- Billing and Subscription Management - Manages recurring subscription cycles and billing transactions through payment gateway integrations.
- Payment Gateway Integrations - Provides integration with payment gateways to process financial transactions and manage recurring subscription cycles.
- Embedding Caches - Caches vector representations of queries and responses to reduce latency in retrieval pipelines.
- Server-Sent Events - Pushes real-time text and reasoning logic from the server to the client via server-sent events.
- Two-Factor Authentication - Secures user accounts by requiring second-factor verification via email codes or authenticator apps.
- API Mocking - Records and replays HTTP responses as static fixtures for deterministic API testing.
- End-to-End and Integration Testing - Validates complex user workflows using headless browser automation and deterministic API response mocking.
- Automated End-to-End Testing - Simulates real user interactions in a virtual browser to validate end-to-end workflows.
- Unit Testing - Includes a suite of unit tests to verify core application logic and security features remain intact.
- Instrumente pentru dezvoltatori - Boilerplate template for rapid web application development.
- Web Development Frameworks - General-purpose boilerplate for Node.js web applications.
