There’s a new open-source blueprint that aims to give developers a place to kick-start their mobile product development for Android and iOS, all built with React Native and Redux.

Named Pepperoni, the development team behind this open-source project has been working for more than 10 months trying to build apps and learning the best ways to do it using React Native. The company powering Pepperoni is Futurice, a software consulting company that creates digital services for its customers. Futurice is also behind the open-source social impact Spice Program, where it serves as advocate of open-source projects.

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Futurice is a European company based in Finland, with designers, developers and consultants working together to build products, like mobile applications, for its customers. Lead engineer of Pepperoni, Jani Eväkallio, said that Futurice had been working with React Native, and the company liked it so much that it wanted to formalize what it used and create something that others could use to create apps using React Native.

Although Pepperoni’s website said that it is a “framework for mobile development,” Eväkallio said that it isn’t quite an accurate way to describe what Pepperoni can do for developers.

“It’s a blueprint or a boilerplate,” he said. “It’s not really something you use in your application; it’s something when you start developing your application, that’s your jumping off point.”

He said that it benefits developers, especially for startups, which often have limited funding to make a product that is different from what is currently in the marketplace. Startups looking to build these apps from scratch usually end up taking weeks and a lot of their budget into something that doesn’t add value to the company, according to Eväkallio.

“If you as a developer at a company believe that what we have created is a good starting point, then you can just start adding features,” he said. “You can start building the things that make you special as a company, as a product, instead of repeating the same thing your competitors are doing.”

Pepperoni doesn’t have a back end yet, but in a few weeks the team expects to launch its back-end solution that will be Node.js and PostgreSQL together.

Pepperoni is cloud-ready for Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku and Microsoft Azure, or developers can host it themselves.

Other features include prebuilt app components, a login, authentication and user management with Auth0, a WhatsApp-style user-to-user and group messaging with SendBird, and push notifications. Also with Pepperoni, developers can deploy instant app updates directly to users who use CodePush, a cloud service that enables Cordova and React Native developers to deploy their mobile apps directly to a user’s device.

As for the name, Eväkallio said inspiration came from Futurice’s Spice Program. The team had a brainstorm, going through boring names that wouldn’t stick with developers. So why not add another food-inspired open-source project to the mix? (Think Gherkin or Cucumber.)

“Pepperoni: It’s kind of like a spicy pepper, and it’s also on pizza,” said Eväkallio. “Who doesn’t love pizza?”