Production-ready Full-Stack Example (Next.js + Node.js API + Prisma)

[aakash-gupta02]

Goals

1. Provide a production-oriented full-stack Turborepo example.
2. Demonstrate sharing code (types, validation, configuration, database) across frontend and backend.
3. Help developers adopt Turborepo using a modern TypeScript stack commonly used in production.

Non-goals

1. Replace existing minimal examples.
2. Support every backend framework or ORM.
3. Showcase every production technology (queues, observability, cloud infrastructure, etc.).

Background

The current examples are excellent for learning individual integrations such as Prisma, Docker, NestJS, and Next.js + Elysia. However, many developers evaluating Turborepo are building applications with a frontend, backend, shared packages, and a database.

A production-oriented example demonstrating a common full-stack architecture could reduce the amount of initial setup required for new users while showcasing Turborepo's strengths around shared packages and task orchestration.

For example:

apps/
  web        -> Next.js
  api        -> Node.js API

packages/
  database   -> Prisma
  types      -> Shared TypeScript types
  validation -> Shared Zod schemas
  config     -> Shared configuration
  utils      -> Shared utilities

along with:

pnpm workspaces
Turborepo caching
Prisma + PostgreSQL
Docker Compose for local development
Shared package imports

This architecture is common across many production applications but isn't currently represented by a single example.

Proposal

A new example repository demonstrating a complete full-stack application.

The implementation could include:

Next.js frontend
Node.js API (Express, Fastify, or another lightweight framework)
Prisma with PostgreSQL
Shared packages for types, validation, configuration, and utilities
Docker Compose for local development
Documentation explaining package boundaries and dependency sharing

I'd be happy to implement this and open a PR if the maintainers think it would be a good fit for the official examples.