Since a lot of my projects start with a lot of the same boilerplate, I decided to create and maintain a backend template that gave me a quick way bootstrap a new project's backend, while ensuring that I don't miss key security patches.
If you're familar with NestJS or TS Backend frameworks, look at my backend and give me some feedback! I'm very open to hearing where it falls short! If you aren't familar with NestJS, take a look! It serves as my best practices that I've learned and you'll find it has a lot in similar with the other popular NestJS templates (mine's obviously better though).