Whelve
A opinionated SaaS starter w/ Next 15 & better-auth
Overview
WHELVE presents a fresh approach to building production-ready Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, aiming to streamline the development process through an opinionated tech stack. With a focus on providing developers with essential tools, this project captures a snapshot of knowledge and practices that are evolving as it remains in active development. While it isn’t quite ready for production use just yet, the features included cater to a comprehensive build experience.
Features
- Next.js 15 - Framework: This cutting-edge framework enables rapid development and easy deployment, providing a solid foundation for any SaaS application.
- Vercel - Deployments: Leveraging Vercel allows for seamless deployment processes, ensuring that updates and changes are pushed effortlessly.
- Biome - Linter, Formatter: Maintains code quality and consistency by integrating a robust linter and formatter, making it easier to manage codebases.
- TailwindCSS - Styling: This utility-first CSS framework allows for rapid and responsive design, enhancing the user interface with minimal effort.
- Shadcn - UI Components: Pre-built UI components help speed up the design process, enabling developers to create visually appealing applications quickly.
- next-themes - Theme Manager: A flexible theme management system allows applications to support different visual themes, improving user customization.
- TypeScript - Type Safety: By incorporating TypeScript, the framework enhances code reliability and reduces runtime errors through static type checking.
- NeonDB - Serverless Postgres: Offers a powerful, serverless database solution that is scalable and easy to integrate into applications, simplifying data management.
WHELVE aims to evolve continuously, with a clear roadmap highlighting upcoming features such as enhanced authentication, billing integrations, and a dashboard page for better user experience.
- Next.js
Next.js is a React-based web framework that enables server-side rendering, static site generation, and other powerful features for building modern web applications.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- TanStack
TanStack is a collection of high-quality, framework-agnostic libraries including TanStack Query for data fetching, TanStack Router for routing, TanStack Table for tables, and more. These tools provide powerful, type-safe solutions for common web development challenges.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Drizzle ORM
Drizzle ORM is a TypeScript ORM for SQL databases designed with maximum type safety in mind. It comes with a drizzle-kit CLI companion for automatic SQL migrations generation. Drizzle ORM is meant to be a library, not a framework. It stays as an opt-in solution all the time at any levels.
- Neon
Neon is a fully managed serverless PostgreSQL database with autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage. It separates storage and compute to offer instant provisioning and scale-to-zero capabilities for modern cloud applications.
- Motion
Motion (formerly Framer Motion) is a production-ready animation library for React and JavaScript. It provides a simple declarative API for creating fluid animations, gestures, and transitions with excellent performance and accessibility.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- React Hook Form
React Hook Form is a performant, flexible, and extensible form library for React with easy validation. It reduces re-renders and improves performance by using uncontrolled components and native HTML validation, making form handling simple and efficient.
- Recharts
Recharts is a powerful and easy-to-use React library for building customizable and interactive charts. Built on D3.js, it offers a wide range of pre-built chart types, such as line, bar, pie, and scatter charts, all of which can be composed with a declarative syntax.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
- Zod
Zod is a TypeScript-first schema declaration and validation library. It allows you to define schemas that can validate data at runtime while providing excellent TypeScript inference, making it perfect for API validation, form validation, and type-safe data handling.