To provide a comprehensive, production-ready Next.js starter template that accelerates development of modern web applications with enterprise-grade authentication, database management, and user interface components.
Enable developers to rapidly build scalable, secure, and feature-rich web applications by providing a solid foundation with best practices, modern technologies, and essential pre-built functionality.
Developers often spend significant time setting up authentication systems, database schemas, UI components, and project architecture before building actual features. This template eliminates that setup overhead while maintaining flexibility and extensibility.
- Full-stack developers building SaaS applications
- Development teams requiring rapid prototyping
- Freelance developers working on client projects
- Startup founders building MVPs
- Frontend developers learning backend integration
- Backend developers learning modern frontend patterns
- DevOps engineers deploying Next.js applications
- Reduce initial development time by 60-80%
- Provide enterprise-grade security out-of-the-box
- Support scalable multi-tenant applications
- Enable rapid MVP development for startups
- Implement modern best practices and patterns
- Ensure type safety throughout the application
- Provide comprehensive testing capabilities
- Support multiple deployment environments
- Intuitive and responsive user interface
- Seamless authentication experience
- Accessible design following WCAG guidelines
- Consistent design system across components
Priority: Critical
User Stories:
- As a user, I want to register with email and password
- As a user, I want to sign in with social accounts (Google)
- As a user, I want to reset my password via email
- As a user, I want to verify my email address
- As an admin, I want to manage user roles and permissions
Acceptance Criteria:
- Secure password storage with proper hashing
- Email verification required for account activation
- Session management with configurable expiration
- Social authentication with proper profile mapping
- Role-based access control (SUPERADMIN, ADMIN, USER)
Priority: High
User Stories:
- As a user, I want to create and manage organizations
- As an organization owner, I want to invite team members
- As a team member, I want to switch between organizations
- As an admin, I want to manage organization settings
Acceptance Criteria:
- Organization-based data isolation
- Invitation-based team member management
- Role inheritance within organizations
- Audit logging for organization activities
Priority: High
User Stories:
- As a user, I want to view data in sortable, filterable tables
- As a user, I want to search and paginate through large datasets
- As a user, I want to export data in various formats
- As an admin, I want to manage user data efficiently
Acceptance Criteria:
- Client-side and server-side sorting
- Advanced filtering with multiple criteria
- Pagination with configurable page sizes
- Export to CSV, JSON, and Excel formats
- Column visibility controls
Priority: Medium
User Stories:
- As a user, I want to organize tasks in a Kanban board
- As a user, I want to drag and drop tasks between columns
- As a user, I want to create and edit tasks
- As a user, I want to customize board columns
Acceptance Criteria:
- Drag-and-drop task management
- Persistent board state
- Customizable columns and workflows
- Real-time updates (future enhancement)
Priority: Medium
User Stories:
- As a user, I want to switch between light and dark themes
- As a user, I want to choose from multiple design presets
- As a developer, I want to easily customize the theme system
Acceptance Criteria:
- System-aware theme detection
- Multiple theme presets (brutalist, soft-pop, tangerine)
- Persistent theme preferences
- CSS variable-based customization
Priority: Medium
User Stories:
- As a user, I want to view the application in my preferred language
- As a developer, I want to easily add new languages
- As an admin, I want to manage content translations
Acceptance Criteria:
- URL-based locale routing (/en, /id)
- Server-side translation rendering
- Dynamic content localization
- Extensible translation system
Priority: High
User Stories:
- As a user, I want to receive email confirmations
- As a user, I want to receive password reset emails
- As a user, I want to receive organization invitations
- As an admin, I want to send transactional emails
Acceptance Criteria:
- Email template system with React components
- Multiple email types (welcome, verification, reset, invitation)
- Branded email templates
- Bounce and delivery tracking integration
- Page load time < 2 seconds on 3G networks
- Database query response time < 100ms
- API response time < 500ms
- Bundle size optimization with code splitting
- OWASP Top 10 compliance
- Secure cookie handling
- SQL injection prevention
- XSS protection
- CSRF protection
- Content Security Policy implementation
- Support for 10,000+ concurrent users
- Horizontal scaling capability
- Database connection pooling
- CDN integration for static assets
- WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
- Keyboard navigation support
- Screen reader compatibility
- High contrast mode support
- Proper ARIA labels and roles
- Number of GitHub stars and forks
- Template usage in production applications
- Community contributions and engagement
- Documentation views and feedback
- Code coverage > 80%
- Zero critical security vulnerabilities
- Performance scores > 90 in Lighthouse
- Type safety coverage > 95%
- Time to first running application < 5 minutes
- Setup completion rate > 90%
- Developer satisfaction score > 4.5/5
- Issue resolution time < 48 hours
- Must use Next.js App Router
- Must support TypeScript
- Must be compatible with Vercel deployment
- Must support PostgreSQL database
- Open source with MIT license
- Community-driven development
- Regular maintenance and updates
- Backward compatibility considerations
- Users have basic knowledge of React and TypeScript
- Development environment supports Node.js 18+
- Users have access to PostgreSQL database
- Users can configure environment variables
- Next.js 16.0+ (Framework)
- React 19+ (UI Library)
- TypeScript 5+ (Type Safety)
- Drizzle ORM 0.44+ (Database)
- Better Auth 1.3+ (Authentication)
- Tailwind CSS 4+ (Styling)
- Radix UI (Component Primitives)
- Framer Motion (Animations)
- Lucide React (Icons)
- Resend (Email Service)
- Google OAuth (Social Authentication)
- PostgreSQL (Database)
- Vercel (Deployment Platform)
- Breaking Changes: Next.js or dependency updates
- _Mitigation_: Semantic versioning, automated testing
- Security Vulnerabilities: Third-party dependencies
- _Mitigation_: Regular security audits, dependency updates
- Performance Degradation: Large dataset handling
- _Mitigation_: Performance monitoring, optimization techniques
- Competition: Similar templates in the market
- _Mitigation_: Unique features, community engagement
- Maintenance Overhead: Long-term support requirements
- _Mitigation_: Community contributions, automated processes
- ✅ Core authentication system
- ✅ Basic dashboard functionality
- ✅ User management
- ✅ Data tables
- ✅ Theme system
- Real-time features with WebSockets
- Advanced file management
- API documentation generation
- Enhanced testing suite
- Microservices architecture option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Multi-database support
- Enterprise features
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Document Version: 1.1
Last Updated: December 8, 2024
Next Review: January 31, 2025