Indiecorn: an enterprise-ready SaaS business boilerplate

Criteria

• It should support both a managed and self-hosted offering
• It should support geo-distributed data for latency and compliance
• It should use dependencies that you can self-host or buy as a managed service

Roadmap

• Setup web stack consisting of Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Prisma
• Add authentication using Next Auth
• Add support for user and workspace deletion
• Add monorepo setup with NX
• Add good testing facilities, incl. end to end testing
• Add Docker dev containers and Docker Compose for local development with all dependencies set up
• Add docs with Docusaurus
• Add highly configurable authorization management
• Add workspace and groups administration
• Add SSO and SAML support using Work OS or BoxyHQ
• Add billing, subscription and tax management with support for usage-based pricing using Stripe or Paddle
• Add Docker image builds using Github CI/CD
• Add deployment documentation for Postgres and [CockroachDB])(https://www.cockroachlabs.com)
• Add guides for setting up managed versions of dependencies
• Add contributing docs
• Add terms of service and privacy policy
• Add an admin/support page
• Add options for rate limiting on a public and authenticated basis
• Add a quota and usage management and billing framework
• Add option for real-time/collaborative features using Soketi and Automerge
• Add instrumentation with getanalytics.io, Next.js Analytics, and Grafana
• Add configuration of geo-affinity for workspaces that gets passed through to dependent services
• Add data export functionality
• Add audit logging
• Ensure codebase preparedness for compliance with Vanta
• Add BI with Airbyte, BigQuery, dbt, and Metabase
• Add guidelines for building a landing page with webflow
• Add Temporal for advanced workflows
• Add customer lifecycle emails (welcome, getting started, etc.) using customer.io or Sendgrid
• Add customer support with Chatwoot
• Add status page with Atlassian Statuspage
• Add search with https://typesense.org

Set up a development environment

Complete the following steps to set up a development environment

1. Copy .env.example into .env (ignored by Git) and populate the settings. For development purposes, it is sufficient to specify one authentication provider. You can use Ethereal to quickly configure email authentication.
2. Install Docker if you don't already have it installed
3. Spin up a development container in VS Code by running the "Remote-Containers: Reopen in Container" command
4. Install dependencies by running yarn install
5. Run migrations with yarn migrate
6. Run yarn start to start the site on localhost:3000
7. Run yarn docs:start to start the docs site on localhost:3001

Using nx

This project uses nx for monorepo management:

• Run nx g @nrwl/TYPE:lib my-lib to generate a library (replace TYPE with e.g. next or workspace)
• Run nx e2e frontend or nx affected:e2e frontend to run end-to-end tests
• Run nx graph to see a diagram of the project dependencies