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url: /tutorials.md
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* [Quick Start](../intro/quickstart.md)
* [Progressive Development](../intro/progressive.md)
* [RESTful API](./restful.md)

## Boilerplate Type Description

You can use boilerplate type like this:

```bash
$ npm init egg --type=simple
```

### Options

| boilerplate type |                Description |
| :--------------: | -------------------------: |
|      simple      | Simple egg app boilerplate |
|      empty       |  Empty egg app boilerplate |
|      plugin      |     egg plugin boilerplate |
|    framework     |  egg framework boilerplate |

## Template Engines

Build in [@eggjs/view] as template engine solution and support multiple render, which is called by plugin but keeping the consistent render API. Refer to [how to use templates](../core/view.md)，More details on [template plugin development](../advanced/view-plugin.md).

Template engines available as shown below. For more template engines [searching](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93\&q=topic%3Aegg-view\&type=Repositories\&ref=searchresults)

* [egg-view-nunjucks]
* [egg-view-ejs]
* [egg-view-handlebars]
* [egg-view-pug]
* [egg-view-xtpl]

## Databases

Official maintained ORM model is [egg-orm] base on [Leoric], and the following database plugins are currently available:

* [egg-orm]
* [egg-sequelize]
* [egg-mongoose]
* [egg-mysql]，refer to [MySQL tutorials](./mysql.md)
* [@eggjs/redis]，refer to [Redis tutorials](./redis.md)
* \[egg-graphql]

[egg-sequelize]: https://github.com/eggjs/egg-sequelize

[egg-mongoose]: https://github.com/eggjs/egg-mongoose

[egg-mysql]: https://github.com/eggjs/egg-mysql

[@eggjs/view]: https://github.com/eggjs/egg/blob/master/plugins/view/README.md

[egg-view-nunjucks]: https://github.com/eggjs/egg-view-nunjucks

[egg-view-ejs]: https://github.com/eggjs/egg-view-ejs

[egg-view-handlebars]: https://github.com/eggjs/egg-view-handlebars

[egg-view-pug]: https://github.com/chrisyip/egg-view-pug

[egg-view-xtpl]: https://github.com/eggjs/egg-view-xtpl

[egg-orm]: https://github.com/eggjs/egg-orm/blob/master/Readme.md

[Leoric]: https://leoric.js.org

[@eggjs/redis]: https://github.com/eggjs/egg/tree/next/plugins/redis