Boilerplate and Starter for Next JS 14+, Tailwind CSS 3 and TypeScript

🚀 Boilerplate and Starter for Next.js, Tailwind CSS and TypeScript ⚡️ Made with developer experience first: Next.js, TypeScript, ESLint, Prettier, Husky, Lint-Staged, Jest, Testing Library, Commitlint, VSCode, PostCSS, Tailwind CSS.

Clone this project and use it to create your own Next.js project.

Features

Developer experience first:

• ⚡ Next.js for Static Site Generator
• 🔥 Type checking TypeScript
• 💎 Integrate with Tailwind CSS
• ✅ Strict Mode for TypeScript and React 18
• 📏 Linter with ESLint (default NextJS, NextJS Core Web Vitals, Tailwind CSS and Airbnb configuration)
• 💖 Code Formatter with Prettier
• 🦊 Husky for Git Hooks
• 🚫 Lint-staged for running linters on Git staged files
• 🚓 Lint git commit with Commitlint
• 🦺 Testing with Jest and React Testing Library
• 💡 Absolute Imports using @ prefix
• 🗂 VSCode configuration: Debug, Settings, Tasks and extension for PostCSS, ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript, Jest
• 🤖 SEO metadata, JSON-LD and Open Graph tags with Next SEO
• ⚙️ Bundler Analyzer
• 🖱️ One click deployment with Vercel or Netlify (or manual deployment to any hosting services)
• 🌈 Include a FREE minimalist theme
• 💯 Maximize lighthouse score

Built-in feature from Next.js:

• ☕ Minify HTML & CSS
• 💨 Live reload
• ✅ Cache busting

Philosophy

• Minimal code
• SEO-friendly
• 🚀 Production-ready

Requirements

• Node.js 18+ and PNPM

Getting started

Run the following command on your local environment:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/xdlrt/next-js-app-boilerplate.git my-project-name
cd my-project-name
pnpm install

Then, you can run locally in development mode with live reload:

pnpm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your favorite browser to see your project.

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├── README.md                       # README file
├── __mocks__                       # Mocks for testing
├── .github                         # GitHub folder
├── .husky                          # Husky configuration
├── .vscode                         # VSCode configuration
├── public                          # Public assets folder
├── src
│   ├── layouts                     # Layouts components
│   ├── pages                       # Next JS Pages
│   ├── pages.test                  # Next JS Pages tests (this avoid test to treated as a Next.js pages)
│   ├── styles                      # Styles folder
│   ├── templates                   # Default template
│   └── utils                       # Utility functions
├── tailwind.config.js              # Tailwind CSS configuration
└── tsconfig.json                   # TypeScript configuration

Customization

You can easily configure Next js Boilerplate. Please change the following file:

• public/apple-touch-icon.png, public/favicon.ico, public/favicon-16x16.png and public/favicon-32x32.png: your website favicon, you can generate from https://favicon.io/favicon-converter/
• src/styles/global.css: your CSS file using Tailwind CSS
• src/utils/AppConfig.ts: configuration file
• src/templates/Main.tsx: default theme

Deploy to production

You can see the results locally in production mode with:

$ pnpm run build
$ pnpm run start

The generated HTML and CSS files are minified (built-in feature from Next js). It will also removed unused CSS from Tailwind CSS.

Testing

All tests are colocated with the source code inside the same directory. So, it makes it easier to find them. Unfortunately, it is not possible with the pages folder which is used by Next.js for routing. So, what is why we have a pages.test folder to write tests from files located in pages folder.

Deploy to Vercel

Deploy this Next JS Boilerplate on Vercel in one click:

VSCode information (optional)

If you are VSCode users, you can have a better integration with VSCode by installing the suggested extension in .vscode/extension.json. The starter code comes up with Settings for a seamless integration with VSCode. The Debug configuration is also provided for frontend and backend debugging experience.

With the plugins installed on your VSCode, ESLint and Prettier can automatically fix the code and show you the errors. Same goes for testing, you can install VSCode Jest extension to automatically run your tests and it also show the code coverage in context.

Pro tips: if you need a project wide type checking with TypeScript, you can run a build with Cmd + Shift + B on Mac.

Contributions

Everyone is welcome to contribute to this project. Feel free to open an issue if you have question or found a bug.