Overview

The Next.js Template is a plug-and-play solution for quickly setting up a Next.js application with a robust and extensible architecture. It offers features such as tree-shakable support for modern ES6, user registration and authentication with NextAuth.js, support for public and private API endpoints, integrated application state management with Redux Toolkit, and a responsive user interface with Semantic UI React. Additionally, it includes automated lodash cherry-picking, testing capabilities with mocha, chai, and React Testing Library, code formatting with Prettier, and one-button release to GitHub.

Features

• Tree-shakable support for the latest ES6 goodies: Allows for optimal usage of modern JavaScript features with the help of eslint.
• User registration & authentication via NextAuth.js: Offers user registration and authentication functionalities using AWS Cognito User Pool, supporting native username/password authentication and one federated identity provider.
• Support for public & private API endpoints: Enables the creation of both local and AWS API Gateway secured API endpoints.
• Fully integrated application state management with the Redux Toolkit: Provides a seamless experience for managing application state, including support for difficult-to-serialize types like Date & BigInt.
• Responsive UX with Semantic UI React with LESS theme overrides: Delivers a responsive and visually appealing user interface with the ability to customize themes using LESS.
• Responsive & attractive sample UI with utility components: Includes a sample UI that covers a variety of common use cases and provides a set of reusable utility components.
• Automated lodash cherry-picking with babel-plugin-lodash: Optimizes the usage of the lodash library by automatically cherry-picking only the required modules.
• Front & back-end testing with mocha, chai, and React Testing Library: Offers tools for testing both the front-end and back-end portions of the application, along with examples and a testing console.
• Code formatting with prettier: Provides automatic code formatting upon saving or pasting code snippets.
• One-button release to GitHub with release-it: Simplifies the release process by enabling one-click releases to GitHub.

Installation

1. Clone the repository.
2. Install the dependencies using the package manager of your choice.

npm install

3. Configure the Next.js application by setting the required environment variables.
4. Start the development server.

npm run dev

5. Open your browser and navigate to the specified local address to access the application.

Summary

The Next.js Template is a ready-to-use solution for quickly setting up a Next.js application with a robust and modern architecture. It provides numerous features such as user authentication, support for API endpoints, integrated state management, a responsive user interface, automated testing, code formatting, and easy release to GitHub. With its extensive documentation and easy installation process, the Next.js Template offers developers a convenient starting point for building next-generation web applications.