Lightning
Lightning Boilerplate and starter for Nextjs 14, Tailwind CSS 3.3 and TypeScript Made with developer experience
Overview:
Lightning is an opinionated collection of packages, utilities, and a set of rules for a Next.js 13.4 project. It provides features such as Next.js 13.4, type checking with TypeScript, integration with Tailwind CSS, strict mode for TypeScript and React 18, linter with ESLint, code formatter with Prettier, Git hooks with Husky, running linters on Git staged files with lint-staged, running tests on pull requests with GitHub Actions, absolute imports using @ prefix, and VSCode configuration for debugging, settings, tasks, and extensions. It also includes Next/font for optimizing custom fonts and removing external network requests. Additionally, Lightning offers an expansion pack for easily installing common libraries, additional components, and configurations, including unit testing with Vitest and React Testing Library, PWA with Workbox and Next-PWA plugin, and user authentication with Auth.js using providers like Google, Twitter, and GitHub. It provides a seamless integration with VSCode, with suggested extensions, settings, and debug configurations. Lightning can be deployed on Vercel with one click.
Features:
- Next.js 13.4
- Type checking with TypeScript
- Integration with Tailwind CSS
- Strict Mode for TypeScript and React 18
- Linter with ESLint (default NextJS, NextJS Core Web Vitals, Tailwind CSS, and Airbnb configuration)
- Code Formatter with Prettier
- Git Hooks with Husky
- Running linters on Git staged files with lint-staged
- Running tests on pull requests with GitHub Actions
- Absolute Imports using @ prefix
- VSCode configuration: Debug, Settings, Tasks, and extension for PostCSS, ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript
- Fonts with Next/font for optimizing custom fonts and removing external network requests
Summary:
Lightning is a comprehensive package for Next.js 13.4 projects, offering a range of features including type checking, integration with Tailwind CSS, and strict mode for TypeScript and React 18. It also includes tools for linting, formatting, and testing, and provides a seamless integration with VSCode. Lightning can be easily installed and deployed, making it a convenient choice for developers working with Next.js.
- 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
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- 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.
- 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.
- Vercel
Vercel offers built-in support for deploying and hosting Next.js applications, making it a popular choice among Next.js developers.
- 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.