# next-forge

> A production-grade, monorepo-first Turborepo template for building full-stack Next.js SaaS applications with auth, payments, analytics, and more.

next-forge is a comprehensive, production-grade Turborepo template designed to help developers build full-stack Next.js SaaS applications quickly and efficiently. Created by Vercel, this free and open-source monorepo template provides everything needed to go from idea to Series A, with pre-configured authentication, payments, analytics, SEO, database ORM, email templates, and more. The template follows modern best practices and integrates with industry-leading tools to deliver a complete development experience.

- **Lightning-fast App Template** - Start building immediately with a shadcn/ui template pre-configured with Tailwind CSS, Clerk authentication, and essential UI components ready to customize.

- **Cross-platform API** - Create API microservices for multiple applications with type-safe database ORM powered by Prisma and webhook handlers using Svix for reliable event delivery.

- **React-based Email Templates** - Design and preview email templates using React Email library, then send them through a simple API powered by Resend for transactional emails.

- **Robust Website Template** - Build type-safe marketing websites with twblocks templates, bulletproof SEO optimization, legal pages, and blog functionality powered by BaseHub CMS.

- **Stunning Documentation** - Generate beautiful documentation automatically from markdown files with a clean, maintainable structure that stays in sync with your codebase.

- **Visual Database Editor** - Use Prisma to generate type-safe database clients and Prisma Studio to visualize and edit your data directly during development.

- **Frontend Workshop** - Built-in Storybook instance for creating reusable components and pages that can be tested and previewed in isolation before deployment.

- **Comprehensive Integrations** - Pre-configured with BetterStack for monitoring, PostHog for analytics, Sentry for error tracking, Stripe for payments, Arcjet for security, and Liveblocks for collaboration.

To get started, simply run `npx next-forge@latest init` in your terminal to scaffold a new project. The CLI will guide you through the setup process, configuring your monorepo with all the necessary packages and configurations. The extensive documentation covers everything from initial setup to deployment on Vercel, making it easy to customize and extend the template for your specific needs.

## Features
- Monorepo architecture with Turborepo
- Authentication with Clerk
- Payment processing with Stripe
- Type-safe database ORM with Prisma
- React-based email templates with Resend
- Analytics with PostHog and Google Analytics
- Error monitoring with Sentry
- Uptime monitoring with BetterStack
- Security features with Arcjet
- Real-time collaboration with Liveblocks
- Webhook handling with Svix
- CMS integration with BaseHub
- UI components with shadcn/ui and Radix UI
- Styling with Tailwind CSS
- Documentation generation
- Storybook for component development
- Feature flags support
- Dark mode support
- SEO optimization
- TypeScript support
- Zod validation

## Integrations
Clerk, Stripe, Prisma, Resend, PostHog, Google Analytics, Sentry, BetterStack, Arcjet, Liveblocks, Svix, BaseHub, Neon, Vercel, React Email, shadcn/ui, Radix UI, Tailwind CSS, Storybook, Recharts, CMDK, Lucide, Turso, Metabase, Knock

## Platforms
WEB, API

## Pricing
Open Source

## Links
- Website: https://www.next-forge.com
- Documentation: https://docs.next-forge.com
- Repository: https://github.com/vercel/next-forge
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/next-forge