next-forge Template

next-forge is an MIT-licensed template from Vercel for starting a SaaS product as a Turborepo monorepo. It creates several apps, including the main app, a marketing site, an API, email templates, docs and a Storybook, plus shared code for a design system, the database and more. It comes set up with Clerk for authentication, Stripe for payments, Resend for email, PostHog and Google Analytics, Sentry and BetterStack for monitoring, and Arcjet for security, along with SEO, feature flags, cron jobs, file storage and internationalization. The docs start a project with npx next-forge@latest init, which asks for a project name and whether to use npm, pnpm, yarn or bun (pnpm dlx, yarn dlx and bun x start it too). The quickstart says only Clerk and a PostgreSQL database are required to boot; features that need other keys degrade or show warnings until you add them. We think it fits a builder who knows they are making a SaaS with accounts and billing and would rather start from choices someone already fitted together than connect each service by hand over the first weekend. A caution: it is opinionated by design. Each service it ships with needs its own account and keys before that part works, and a monorepo of six apps is a lot of structure for a small experiment or a single landing page.