▲ / next-forge

Production-grade Turborepo template for Next.js apps.

Overview

next-forge is a production-grade Turborepo template for Next.js apps. It's designed to be a comprehensive starting point for building SaaS applications, providing a solid, opinionated foundation with minimal configuration required.

Built on a decade of experience building web applications, next-forge balances speed and quality to help you ship thoroughly-built products faster.

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next-forge is built around five core principles:

- Fast — Quick to build, run, deploy, and iterate on
- Cheap — Free to start with services that scale with you
- Opinionated — Integrated tooling designed to work together
- Modern — Latest stable features with healthy community support
- Safe — End-to-end type safety and robust security posture

Demo

Experience next-forge in action:

- Web — Marketing website
- App — Main application
- Storybook — Component library
- API — API health check

Features

next-forge comes with batteries included:

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- Web — Marketing site built with Tailwind CSS and TWBlocks
- App — Main application with authentication and database integration
- API — RESTful API with health checks and monitoring
- Docs — Documentation site powered by Mintlify
- Email — Email templates with React Email
- Storybook — Component development environment

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- Authentication — Powered by Clerk
- Database — Type-safe ORM with migrations
- Design System — Comprehensive component library with dark mode
- Payments — Subscription management via Stripe
- Email — Transactional emails via Resend
- Analytics — Web (Google Analytics) and product (Posthog)
- Observability — Error tracking (Sentry), logging, and uptime monitoring (BetterStack)
- Security — Application security (Arcjet), rate limiting, and secure headers
- CMS — Type-safe content management for blogs and documentation
- SEO — Metadata management, sitemaps, and JSON-LD
- AI — AI integration utilities
- Webhooks — Inbound and outbound webhook handling
- Collaboration — Real-time features with avatars and live cursors
- Feature Flags — Feature flag management
- Cron — Scheduled job management
- Storage — File upload and management
- Internationalization — Multi-language support
- Notifications — In-app notification system

Getting Started

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- Node.js 20+
- pnpm (or npm/yarn/bun)
- Stripe CLI for local webhook testing

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Create a new next-forge project:

``sh
npx next-forge@latest init
`

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1. Configure your environment variables
2. Set up required service accounts (Clerk, Stripe, Resend, etc.)
3. Run the development server

For detailed setup instructions, read the documentation.

Structure

next-forge uses a monorepo structure managed by Turborepo:

`
next-forge/
├── apps/ # Deployable applications
│ ├── web/ # Marketing website (port 3001)
│ ├── app/ # Main application (port 3000)
│ ├── api/ # API server
│ ├── docs/ # Documentation
│ ├── email/ # Email templates
│ └── storybook/ # Component library
└── packages/ # Shared packages
├── design-system/
├── database/
├── auth/
└── ...
``

Each app is self-contained and independently deployable. Packages are shared across apps for consistency and maintainability.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at next-forge.com/docs, including:

- Detailed setup guides
- Package documentation
- Migration guides for swapping providers
- Deployment instructions
- Examples and recipes

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See the contributing guide for details.

Contributors

Made with contrib.rocks.

License

MIT