🚀 nextjs-start-cli

A beautiful, opinionated CLI tool to scaffold fully-featured Next.js 15+ projects with ease.
Supports shadcn/ui, Better-Auth, Prisma or Drizzle, SQLite setup, multi-package manager support (pnpm, npm, bun) — and all the batteries included!

🎥 Demo

✨ Features

• ⚡ Fast and interactive setup with @clack/prompts
• 📦 Supports pnpm, npm, and bun
• 🎨 Fully configured shadcn/ui
• 🛠️ Choose between Prisma or Drizzle as the database adapter
• 🔐 Authentication powered by Better Auth (pre-integrated)
• 🧩 Modular structure with optional src/ directory support
• 🧱 Prebuilt templates for layout, components, theme provider, and more

📦 Installation

# Using pnpm
pnpm dlx nextjs-start-cli

# Using npm
npx nextjs-start-cli

# Using bun
bunx nextjs-start-cli

🧪 What You Get

After running the CLI, you'll get:

• A fresh Next.js app (app/ directory routing)
• tailwind.config.ts and postcss.config.js
• @shadcn/ui installed and configured with dark/light mode
• Components like Button, DropdownMenu, ThemeProvider, ModeToggle
• Optional Prisma or Drizzle + SQLite setup
• Database schema or config files
• Latest prisma client setup
• Optional Database seeding script
• Full Better-Auth set-up for client and server components
• Sensible .gitignore and initial env scaffolding

🛠️ Usage

After running the CLI:

# Start your Next.js project
cd your-project-name
pnpm dev

If you chose Prisma:

pnpm dlx prisma migrate dev

If you chose Drizzle:

pnpm dlx drizzle-kit generate

📦 Tech Stack

• Next.js 15
• TypeScript
• TailwindCSS
• shadcn/ui
• Prisma or Drizzle
• @clack/prompts
• Better-Auth

🙌 Contributing

Contributions, ideas, and feedback are welcome!
Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests.

📜 License

MIT © Abdulfetah Suudi

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