🚀 Ultimate TypeScript Full Stack Starter

🌟 Overview

Welcome to the Ultimate TypeScript Full Stack Starter! This comprehensive toolkit provides a robust foundation for building scalable, feature-rich applications using the MERN (MySQL, Express, React, Node.js) stack with TypeScript.

🎯 Why Choose This Starter?

• Full Stack: Covers both backend (Express.js) and frontend (Next.js) development
• TypeScript: Enjoy the benefits of static typing and improved developer experience
• Batteries Included: Packed with essential features and best practices
• Scalable: Designed to grow with your project needs
• Modern: Utilizes the latest technologies and patterns

🛠 Tech Stack

• Database: MySQL with Prisma ORM
• Backend: Express.js
• Frontend: Next.js (Server-side rendering, Static site generation, Client-side rendering)
• Language: TypeScript
• Containerization: Docker

🔑 Key Features

🖥 Backend

• Authentication: Secure bearer sessions and OAuth (Google, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub) via Passport.js
• Authorization: Fine-grained access control with CASL
• Validation: Request validation using Zod
• Error Handling: Comprehensive error management system
• Logging: Advanced logging with Pino and log rotation
• File Management: S3 integration for file and video uploads
• Video Processing: Conversion to browser-compatible formats with FFmpeg
• Caching: Redis integration for improved performance
• Rate Limiting: API protection with express-rate-limit
• Background Processing: Efficient task handling with BullMQ and node-cron
• Internationalization: Multi-language support with i18n
• API Documentation: Swagger integration
• Events: Powerful event handling with EventEmitter2

🎨 Frontend

• UI Framework: React with Next.js
• Styling: Tailwind CSS
• State Management: zustand
• Form Handling: React Hook Form

🔒 Security

• CORS protection
• Secure authentication
• Request validation
• Rate limiting

⚡ Performance

• esbuild bundling for faster builds
• Hot-reload for rapid development
• Redis caching
• Optimized architecture

💻 Developer Experience

• Docker support for easy setup and deployment
• Code formatting with Prettier
• Linting with ESLint

🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/ghostlexly/ultimate-typescript-starter-kit.git
   cd ultimate-typescript-starter-kit
   

2. Set up environment variables Copy .env.template to .env and fill in your values

3. Install dependencies

   cd backend
   npm install
   
   cd ../frontend
   npm install
   

4. Start the development environment

   docker compose up
   

5. Access the application

   • Frontend: http://localhost
   • Backend: http://localhost/api/
   • Swagger Docs: http://localhost/api/swagger

📚 Documentation

For detailed documentation on each feature and how to use this starter kit, please refer to our Wiki.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions!

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

🙏 Acknowledgements

• See backend README for more details.
• See frontend README for more details.

📞 Support

If you have any questions or need help, please open an issue or contact our team at [email protected].

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Happy coding! 🎉 Don't forget to star ⭐ this repo if you find it useful!