Being the author, I'm of course biased, but I made Boilerplay (https://github.com/KyleU/boilerplay https://github.com/KyleU/boilerplay) for this very reason. It

Being the author, I'm of course biased, but I made Boilerplay (https://github.com/KyleU/boilerplay https://github.com/KyleU/boilerplay) for this very reason. It's a Play/Scala app, uses postgres-async for database access, and provides most of the boilerplate you'd need for non-trivial apps (admin, metrics, reporting, sign-in, etc).