This is a submission for the Neon Open Source Starter Kit Challenge: Ultimate Starter Kit

My Kit

For the Neon OSS Challenge, I've built a Node.js CLI for shipping Next.js SaaS applications much faster than ever. The primary idea was to build something unique which can handle multiple starter templates at once. Hence, for now the starter kit comes in two flavors:

• A Next.js project with Drizzle ORM
• A Next.js project with Prisma :)

Why Neon OSS Starter Kit?

It is a common practice to start a new project by copying and pasting code from a previous project. This is not only time-consuming but also error-prone. The Neon OSS Starter Kit provides a well-documented, easy-to-use, and simple starting point for building your SaaS projects with Neon.

The starter kit is not just about setting up a simple database connected to the frontend; you can even use the power of machine learning with Neon as a Vector database, Axios for making server side calls. Learn more about these advanced features from the Neon OSS Kit docs page.

Tools and Features:

The starter kit comes with a bunch of pre-configured setups that allow you to start building your project without any additional configuration. Some of the major features include:

• Neon (Database)
• Clerk (Authentication)
• Prisma/Drizzle (ORM tools)
• Axios (A promise-based HTTP Client for node.js and the browser)
• A simple and customizable frontend powered by React.js, Next.js, ShadcnUI, and TailwindCSS.

To scaffold the Neon OSS Starter Kit, you can run the following command:

npx @rohittcodes/neon-osskit@latest

Note: This command will create a new Next.js project with Prisma ORM by default. You can explicitly provide other configurations (Drizzle/Prisma for now) by including drizzle or prisma at the end of the command.

npx @rohittcodes/neon-osskit@latest drizzle

Preview

Link to Kit

As mentioned above, the starter kit is divided into 3 individual repositories for now, and is documented with a docs repo which is the main source for any query related stuff.

• Then comes the Node.js CLI repository for the starter kit, which is powered by 2 individual templates:
  • Prisma: Prisma is a modern database toolkit that makes database access easy with type-safe database access and declarative data modeling.
  • Drizzle: Drizzle is a lightweight ORM for Node.js that provides a simple and intuitive API for interacting with databases.

Further moving on, the focus will be to turn these repos into a monorepo and maintain all the templates at a single source. And again, You can find the documentation here: https://osskit-neon.vercel.app

npx @rohittcodes/neon-osskit@latest

npx @rohittcodes/neon-osskit@latest drizzle

npx @rohittcodes/neon-osskit@latest prisma

DATABASE_URL="your-neon-database-url"
 
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=your-clerk-publishable-key
CLERK_SECRET_KEY=your-clerk-secret-key
 
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_SIGN_IN_URL=/sign-in
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_SIGN_UP_URL=/sign-up

Your Journey

Developing applications and tools meant for better utilization is what drives me, and developing this Node.js CLI was the first of its kind. I've been working on full-stack projects for the past year, but this challenge gave me the opportunity to build something I've dreamt of since my early days. Although the project isn't fully complete yet, I'll push myself to add more features to it and make it a monorepo as soon as possible.

The journey was quite hectic, but now that it's done, I'll be chilling for a little time. Why not contribute to some cool open-source projects after a little break? The official documentation provided a lot of help, which made the game easier. However, the idea wasn't just to build a CLI for only 2 templates, but I started it a little late.

Nevertheless, the journey was great, and I learned a lot from it.

Contributors

If you're an open source contributor, and would like to contribute to the documentation, please feel free to drop by and raise some issues + PRs. Thanks in advance😁.