🚀 nextjs-starter-pack

A ready-to-go, production-grade Next.js starter template packed with modern tools and batteries-included features like authentication, PostgreSQL/PostGIS support, TRPC, Drizzle ORM, and TailwindCSS — all in one clean setup.

✨ Features

• 🔐 Authentication – Built-in via better-auth with support for Google login
• 🧠 Type-safe APIs – Powered by tRPC
• ⚡ Modern ORM – Drizzle ORM with PostgreSQL & PostGIS support
• 🎨 UI Components – Built using shadcn/ui
• 🎯 Form Handling – Integrated with react-hook-form
• 💅 Styling – Tailwind CSS
• 🧪 TypeScript-first – End-to-end type safety
• 📧 Emails – Resend integration for transactional emails
• 🧼 Linting – ESLint configured and ready
• 🐘 Dockerized Database – Easily spin up a local PostgreSQL with PostGIS

🧱 Tech Stack

• Next.js
• TypeScript
• Drizzle ORM
• TRPC
• Tailwind CSS
• Shadcn UI
• React Hook Form
• Resend
• PostgreSQL + PostGIS (via Docker)
• Better Auth
• ESLint

⚙️ Getting Started

1. Install dependencies

pnpm install

2. Create your .env file

# Drizzle
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:password@localhost:5432/starter-pack"

# Auth
BETTER_AUTH_SECRET=""
BETTER_AUTH_URL="http://localhost:3000"

# Google OAuth
AUTH_GOOGLE_ID=""
AUTH_GOOGLE_SECRET=""

# Resend
AUTH_RESEND_KEY=""
EMAIL_FROM="[email protected]"

# Base URL
BASE_URL="http://localhost:3000"

3. Set up your database

pnpm db:start      # Start the Dockerized Postgres DB
pnpm db:generate   # Generate Drizzle client
pnpm db:push       # Push schema to database
pnpm db:studio     # (Optional) Open database studio

4. Run the development server

pnpm dev