Career Connect build on Next JS 13+ and TypeScript

🚀 Career Connect build on Next.js and TypeScript ⚡️ Made with developer experience first: Next.js, TypeScript, ESLint, Prettier, Husky, Lint-Staged, Jest, Testing Library, Commitlint, VSCode, Netlify, PostCSS, Tailwind CSS.

Please create .env.local file and add these

GOOGLE_AUTH_SCOPE='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets'
GOOGLE_SPREADSHEET_ID=1QJTbq7Yqy5z1CkNbs1FXbG8laWIdnskvNkauUQCXBnQ
GOOGLE_SPREADSHEET_NAME=Knowledge

Features

Developer experience first:

⚡ Next.js for Static Site Generator
🔥 Type checking TypeScript
✅ 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
🦊 Husky for Git Hooks
🚫 Lint-staged for running linters on Git staged files
🚓 Lint git commit with Commitlint
📓 Write standard compliant commit messages with Commitizen
🦺 Unit Testing with Jest and React Testing Library
🧪 E2E Testing with Cypress
👷 Run tests on pull request with GitHub Actions
🎁 Automatic changelog generation with Semantic Release
🔍 Visual testing with Percy (Optional)
💡 Absolute Imports using @ prefix
🗂 VSCode configuration: Debug, Settings, Tasks and extension for PostCSS, ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript, Jest
🤖 SEO metadata, JSON-LD and Open Graph tags with Next SEO
🗺️ Sitemap.xml and robots.txt with next-sitemap
⚙️ Bundler Analyzer
🖱️ One click deployment with Vercel or Netlify (or manual deployment to any hosting services)
💯 Maximize lighthouse score

Built-in feature from Next.js:

☕ Minify HTML & CSS
💨 Live reload
✅ Cache busting

Philosophy

All the Next.js pages are statically generated by default. You can easily switch to SSR adding getServerSideProps to your page.
Nothing is hidden from you, so you have the freedom to make the necessary adjustments to fit your needs and preferences.
Minimal code
SEO-friendly
🚀 Production-ready

Requirements

Node.js 14+ and npm

Getting started

Run the following command on your local environment:

Then, you can run locally in development mode with live reload:

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your favorite browser to see your project.

Customization

You can easily configure Next js Boilerplate by making a search in the whole project with FIXME: for making quick customization. Here is some of the most important files to customize:

public/apple-touch-icon.png, public/favicon.ico, public/favicon-16x16.png and public/favicon-32x32.png: your website favicon, you can generate from https://favicon.io/favicon-converter/
src/styles/global.css: your CSS file using Tailwind CSS
src/utils/AppConfig.ts: configuration file
src/templates/Main.tsx: default theme
next-sitemap.config.js: sitemap configuration

You have access to the whole code source if you need further customization. The provided code is only example for you to start your project. The sky is the limit 🚀.

Commit Message Format

The project enforces Conventional Commits specification. This means that all your commit messages must be formatted according to the specification. To help you write commit messages, the project uses Commitizen, an interactive CLI that guides you through the commit process. To use it, run the following command:

npm run commit

One of the benefits of using Conventional Commits is that it allows us to automatically generate a CHANGELOG file. It also allows us to automatically determine the next version number based on the types of commits that are included in a release.

Deploy to production

You can see the results locally in production mode with:

$ npm run build
$ npm run start

You can create an optimized production build with:

npm run build-prod

Now, your blog is ready to be deployed. All generated files are located at out folder, which you can deploy with any hosting service.

Testing

All tests are colocated with the source code inside the same directory. So, it makes it easier to find them. Unfortunately, it is not possible with the pages folder which is used by Next.js for routing. So, what is why we have a pages.test folder to write tests from files located in pages folder.

VSCode information (optional)

If you are VSCode users, you can have a better integration with VSCode by installing the suggested extension in .vscode/extension.json. The starter code comes up with Settings for a seamless integration with VSCode. The Debug configuration is also provided for frontend and backend debugging experience.

With the plugins installed on your VSCode, ESLint and Prettier can automatically fix the code and show you the errors. Same goes for testing, you can install VSCode Jest extension to automatically run your tests and it also show the code coverage in context.

Pro tips: if you need a project wide type checking with TypeScript, you can run a build with Cmd + Shift + B on Mac.

Contributions

Everyone is welcome to contribute to this project. Feel free to open an issue if you have question or found a bug. Totally open to any suggestions and improvements.

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