A now-archived starter template for Next.js with Express, authentication, Bootstrap, and SASS.
Next.js Starter was a template project for building React applications with Next.js, featuring built-in authentication, server-side rendering, and a styled UI. It provided a pre-configured setup with Express, Passport.js, Bootstrap, and SASS to help developers quickly start production-ready projects without extensive initial configuration.
React developers looking for a full-featured, production-oriented starting point for Next.js applications, especially those needing integrated authentication and server-side rendering.
It offered a comprehensive, ready-to-use foundation with authentication, styling, and deployment examples, saving significant setup time compared to configuring these features from scratch.
A starter project for Next.js with authentication
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Supported email, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ login via Passport.js, providing a ready-to-use authentication system that reduced initial setup time, as detailed in the README.
Implemented secure session management with HTTP-only cookies and CSRF tokens, offering robust security out of the box, which was explicitly highlighted in the feature list.
Included SASS/SCSS with Bootstrap 4 and Reactstrap, delivering a pre-configured UI component library and styling workflow, as demonstrated in the asset bundling examples.
Provided clear instructions for deploying to Vercel (formerly Zeit) and other platforms, with environment variable configuration, simplifying production rollout.
The project is explicitly archived, meaning no updates, bug fixes, or compatibility with newer Next.js versions, leading to potential security vulnerabilities and broken dependencies.
Relies on deprecated tools like Bootstrap 4 and a custom Express server, which are now redundant with Next.js's native CSS support and API routes, as admitted in the README.
Required manual configuration for authentication and deployment with .env files and now.sh, adding unnecessary complexity compared to modern, streamlined starters.