Next Starter

A starter to bootstrap your Next application (nice pun gg)

Usage

$ yarn
# install dependencies

$ yarn dev
# launch Next dev script

$ yarn build
# launch Next build script

$ yarn start
# launch Next start script

$ yarn test
# launch test suite

$ yarn cy:open
# open cypress (you first need to install deps in cypress folder)

$ yarn ts:check
# check TypeScript

$ yarn lint
# run ESLint

Next config

It comes already configured with some nice plugin. You can see in next.config.js what is used. In short, it allows support of importing images files and fonts within webpack. It also comes with NProgress support by default, so it shows a small loading bar in top of the page when loading. You can find the component in ~/components/NProgress.tsx, and it is used in the custom _app.tsx

Styled component

The template comes with styled-components. Again, you can either choose to not use it, this is a personal choice. You can also find a styles folder, which contains many related styled-components files to keep things organized. It's also includes all themes-related stuff in here. It's again a personal convention that I follow, feel free to annihilate this directory if you want 😢

Styled system

It also comes with styled-system. It is a great way to build reusable UI blocks with a great props API and consistent spaces / typography. A lot comes from the theme, provided in ~/styles/themes/base.ts where we define some breakpoints, spacings and typography stuff. It allows then the custom AppBox component (~/ui/AppBox) to be aware of your theme and then build something amazing with the primitives. By default, this starter provides some basic examples components that uses this pattern, for example the AppNav component (~/components/layout/AppNav).

🔥 It also supports and provides autocomplete for props that takes source from the theme (e.g bg, zIndex, border...). 🔥

TypeScript > 4.1 is mandatory because I'm using the new Template Litteral Types to provide autocompletion of the color prop based of the nested colors object, so when using bg prop for exemple, you should have autocompletion for red.xxx, blue.xxx or anything defined in your colors.ts. It supports nested elements with a dot notation! (that's why TS 4.1 is required)

Framer motion

Again, personal preference here, but the starter comes with framer motion already configured to handle Next pages changes and enable some smooth transitions when navigating. You can find the default variant used for the page transitions in ~/common/framer.ts.

Testing

Jest and @testing-library/react is used to run your tests. It comes preconfigured with ts-jest so your tests also checks your types. You can look the jest.config.js and the file setupTest.ts to see what's in there. jest-styled-components is also used to have deterministic classNames within your styled components that you are testing. Cypress starter for e2e tests. Take a look at Cypress config file cypress.json

Cypress

This starter comes by default with Cypress and some sensible defaults and a custom plugin which enable you to inject your .env* files in the Cypress.env helper. It also add support for a per-environment configuration file. Just add a cypress..json. It uses by default the cypress.json and then extend the configuration if you have a cypress.<env>.json. Take a look at the various configuration file in the cypress folder and the custom plugin in cypress/plugins/index.ts. This folder is independant and lives by itself, so it has his own dependencies / scripts / tsconfig and do not pollute the global namespace. See why an isolated folder

It also have an opiniated way of interacting with some of your webpages in Cypress. As your application will grow (and pages would become complex), it's recommended to have some sort of "Page objects" which allows you to work in a more conveniant way for some complex page. See more here https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/intro-1/cypress#tip-creating-page-objects

Aliases

It includes by default support for aliases in tsconfig.json. They are 1 defaulted alias, ready to use :

// ~ refers to src folder
import { something } from '~/file'

You can also use for your convenience the global __DEV__ variable, which is injected by webpack with the DefinePlugin (see next.config.js).

@types and extending modules

It also includes a @types directory under src, so you can easily separate your types or extends some external modules. They are also included in the tsconfig.json For example, if some package named foo does not have any types in DefinitelyTyped, you could add a index.d.ts under src/@types/foo/index.d.ts. It is just my personal convention, so do as you want!

// src/@types/foo/index.d.ts

// to make sure Typescript get the original types from the module (if any)
import * as foo from 'foo'

declare module 'foo' {
  declare function foo(bar: string): boolean
}

Because the @types directory is declared in typeRoots, Typescript will no longer complain if you imported your package with missing types

Tooling

The template includes Prettier, ESLint (with Typescript-eslint), Babel and lint-staged. All their related configurations are in the *rc files (except for lint-staged, which is located in the package.json).