RanvierMUD Tiny is a barebones starter kit for people who "know what they're doing" and just want to have a telnet connection, login, command parsing, and movement. There is almost nothing here which may be preferable for those that know what they want and don't want to spend time tearing everything down before they can build it back up.
This setup includes account creation, multiplayer players per account, a very basic command parser that understands room exits and exact command entry. That is to say the player needs to type 'look' if they want to look, not 'l'. This gives you freedom to do whatever kind of handling you want without any code to tear down.
There are exactly 2 commands included: look and quit and there is one starter area with 3 rooms to demonstrate that movement actually works.
The basic command parser does not support skills or channels, if you're using this bundle you know what you're doing and can decide how you want those to be parsed. The input events for the login/character creation flow are nearly identical to bundle-example-input-events but pared down to the bare minimum. There are no character classes. There is only one default attribute: health.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ranviermud/tiny
cd tiny
npm install
git submodule foreach npm install