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0015. The template is named Bareship

  • Status: Accepted
  • Date: 2026-10-14
  • Supersedes: the “Name (A6)” part of 0001

Context

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ADR 0001 kept the working name rn-template until a final name was chosen. That name can’t be found: dozens of repositories and packages use it, so neither search engines nor AI answer engines can tell this template apart from the others. People search for “React Native template”, “boilerplate” and “starter kit”; an engine cites a product it can identify by a unique name.

The React Native CLI also constrains the app’s own name inside the template. init MyApp --template … replaces the placeholder, its lowercase form, com.<placeholder> and the title placeholder in every file of the new app. A placeholder equal to the brand would rewrite every mention of the brand (links to the website, the npm name, the code markers) in each new app.

Decision

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  • Brand: Bareship. “Bare” React Native, ready to ship. On 2026-10-14 the npm name, the GitHub organisation, bareship.dev and bareship.app were free, no GitHub repository used the name, and no product or trademark using it was found.
  • Definition, used first wherever the project describes itself: “Bareship is a production-ready, offline-first bare React Native template for teams and AI agents.” The search terms (template, boilerplate, starter kit, offline-first, bare) go in the description, npm keywords and GitHub topics, not in the name.
  • npm package bareship (--template bareship), repository psingh2907/bareship, website on bareship.dev, code markers [bareship]. The website moved to a subdomain for now: 0016.
  • The app inside the template is the brand plus “App” (written here in parts, because init rewrites the whole word): Bareship + App names the Xcode project and schemes, the display name and the CLI placeholder; its lowercase form gives the bundle id (com. + bareship + app) and the URL scheme. Neither form occurs inside the brand, so init renames the app and leaves the brand alone.

Consequences

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  • Write Bareship when you mean the project, never the app’s placeholder name. The template check (scripts/ci/check-template-init.sh) fails if the placeholder survives init.
  • The GitHub repository must be renamed to bareship when this change is pushed: the links already point there. GitHub redirects the old URL.
  • Before going public: a formal trademark search, and registering bareship.dev.

Alternatives considered

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  • Keep rn-template — can’t rank for its own name.
  • Fullkeel — free on npm and as domains, but the GitHub username is taken.
  • Keelson, Ironhull — the .dev domains are taken.
  • Offlane — a common Dota 2 term, so results would be swamped.
  • Bareframe — an npm package with that name already exists (web components, 2026).
  • Outpost, Shipshape, Seaworthy, Bedrock — crowded names, or they clash with existing products.
  • Placeholder Bareship (equal to the brand) — init would rewrite the brand in every new app.