WDC Saas Starter Kit Walkthrough (Next 14)

NOTE: THIS IS NOT A TUTORIAL, THIS IS A PROJECT WALKTHROUGH. THE VIDEOS ARE FOR EXPLAINING THE CODE IN THE GITHUB REPO AND VARIOUS OTHER TOOLS NEEDED TO GET IT ALL RUNNING.

What is a Walkthrough?

This walkthrough is a collection of videos explaining the code, deployment, maintenance, running locally, setting up services, hooking up env variables, explaining layered architecture, etc. This is NOT a full stack tutorial of me building out the starter kit from scratch. If you're looking for a tutorial to watch someone build something using next.js, I'd recommend checkout the various free youtube videos on my channel or other channels who have great free content.

What's in the Starter Kit?

I built the starter kit as a real life example of what a "small" saas application might look like which includes authentication, image uploads, notifications, comments, posts, a rich text editor, stripe integration, and more. There are lots of examples inside the code base you can use, built upon, or just delete if you don't want them. The code follows a layered architecture which I feel is important to have implemented from the start as you code base grows over time. If you think putting SQL calls directly inside your RSC, this starter kit is probably not for you.

The starter kit is MIT license and free to use for everyone (but don't hold me responsible if you encounter a bug).

https://github.com/webdevcody/wdc-saas-starter-kit

The Features

My starter kit comes with a stack which I find more useful for building out a full stack saas application. Some of this stack includes:

• 🚦 Next.js 15
• 📦 DrizzleORM
• 🌑 ShadCN
• 🌈 Tailwind CSS
• 📝 Typescript
• 🔒 Authentication (Lucia Auth)
• 🌐 Google & Github Login
• 🔗 Magic Link Login
• 👥 Role Based Authorization
• 🗄️ File Storage (R2)
• 🛡️ DDoS Protection (Cloudflare)
• 🌐 Hosting Walkthrough
• 🌟 Postgres
• 💳 Stripe Subscriptions
• 📚 Documentation
• 📰 Newsletter
• ⏳ Coming Soon Mode
• 🚧 Maintenance Mode
• 📧 Emailing (Resend)
• 📊 Analytics (Posthog)
• 🚀 And More!

Limitations of the Starter Kit

I built this starter kit with the idea of hosting on a VPS. If you want to deploy this starter kit to Vercel or to AWS using SST it should be possible, but I am not currently supporting that path to deployment. I personally think deploying to a single VPS is a great first choice and will mitigate any potential issues related to runaway serverless bills or DDoS attacks. Learning to deploy to a managed vps / container host is also great for learning. Plus it'll probably save you money in the long term.

Need Help? Join my Discord

I have a dedicated channel on my discord for anyone looking for support on getting this starter kit running. I'm hoping to have a community of people using the starter kit which can help answer questions. I personally will not be able to support everyone who purchases this walkthrough, but I will try to help people out if they get stuck when I get free time.

https://discord.gg/N2uEyp7Rfu