Add Capstart template

[AdrienADV]

Summary

Adds Capstart to the Capacitor Templates page.

Capstart is a mobile-first Capacitor boilerplate built with React, Vite, TypeScript, Supabase, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui. It gives developers a ready-to-use starting point for building iOS and Android apps with a modern web stack.

What Capstart Includes

• React + Vite + TypeScript app setup
• Capacitor configuration with native iOS and Android projects
• Supabase authentication wiring
• Protected and guest route patterns
• Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui components
• Mobile-first layout with safe-area handling
• Development scripts for web and mobile live reload workflows

Why

The existing templates page highlights Capacitor starter projects for different frontend stacks. Capstart adds a React-based option focused on full app scaffolding, including authentication, styling, and native mobile setup.

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[eric-horodyski]

Hi @AdrienADV — I'm not opposed to adding this, especially since most of the other templates have gone stale.

Originally this page was intended to showcase non-Angular/React/Vue starting points for developers looking into different frameworks, built by the Ionic team.

This page needs some reconsideration altogether...let me sleep on this and see if we can come up with a better purpose for this page.

[AdrienADV]

Totally makes sense!

Just to give a bit more context on why I added Capstart here: after using Capacitor for years, I’ve found it incredibly useful for turning existing web apps into mobile apps, often without having to rebuild everything with a separate mobile framework.

The main friction I kept seeing was getting started: understanding the web/native boundary, knowing which plugins and configuration you actually need, handling safe areas, setting up the native projects, etc.

That’s really why I started Capstart. The goal is to make that first experience with Capacitor as straightforward as possible and help people get to a good mobile result quickly.

There’s a ready-to-use starter with React, shadcn/ui, Supabase, etc., but also the CLI, which can integrate Capacitor directly into existing React, Svelte, Vue, Next.js, Nuxt and other projects, while setting up the native side and some of the defaults I’ve found useful over the years.

Capacitor has been so useful in my own work that I wanted to make that experience easier to discover and use for others too, that’s mainly why I thought it could make sense to share it here

But I totally understand your point about reconsidering the purpose of the page.