Introduction

1.1. Overview

Starfall is a Neon-powered starter kit to streamline building full-stack web applications for developers.

It comes equipped with everything developers need to create cutting-edge, high-performance apps.

A quick look at what Starfall offers:

Next.js: A powerful React framework that makes it easy to build SEO-friendly, fast web apps. Enables us to easily do server-side rendering and build static websites.
Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.
Shadcn/UI: A kit of prebuilt UI components This is perfect for creating visually attractive user interfaces.
Aceternity UI: for other design elements that can make the overall application a little more aesthetically appealing.
Neon: A serverless PostgreSQL database. It’s easy to manage and scales as your app scales.
Drizzle ORM: An ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) tool that simplifies database operations, making it easier to interact with the database.
- SQL-like: Allows you to write queries that feel like plain SQL.
- Relational: Supports traditional relational database features.
Clerk: This handles user authentication. It’s secure and flexible, managing sign-in, sign-up, and user profiles.

We use webhooks to connect Clerk with the database. This way, whenever a user is created, they’re also added to our backend.
TypeScript: An upgrade to JavaScript that adds static typing. It helps catch errors early and makes your code more predictable.