in case its helpful to anyone, i was frustrated with this same thing too so i made a webapp to help with the boilerplate search. It also measures the "cognitive load" of a boilerplate to add some sort of cost function.
Here are the two boilerplates mentioned:
https://packagejason.herokuapp.com/krakenjs/grumbler
https://packagejason.herokuapp.com/styfle/react-server-examp...
and you can search others to your fancy.