How it works?
Overview
Philosophy: strategic simplicity
Next Enterprise prioritizes strategic simplicity for enterprise teams. Not minimal — strategic. Every included tool earns its place by solving a real problem that enterprise teams face repeatedly.
No experimental libraries. No trendy packages that disappear in six months. Just a streamlined foundation with high-impact features that maximize developer productivity from the first commit.
What's included and why
Code quality & consistency: ESLint 9 and Prettier are pre-configured with strict rules. Conventional commits are enforced. TypeScript runs in strict mode with ts-reset for safer type defaults. This isn't optional — enterprise codebases require consistency from day one.
Testing: Vitest handles unit and integration tests with React Testing Library. Playwright handles end-to-end testing. Both are configured, both have example tests, both run in CI. No setup required.
Component development: Storybook is configured for developing and documenting components in isolation. Radix UI provides accessible, unstyled primitives. CVA (Class Variance Authority) manages component variants cleanly.
Observability: OpenTelemetry integration is built in for production-grade tracing and monitoring. Kubernetes health check endpoints are configured. You can see what your application is doing from the moment it deploys.
Automation: GitHub Actions workflows track bundle size changes and performance metrics on every PR. Semantic Release automates versioning and changelog generation. Renovate BOT keeps dependencies current.
Infrastructure as code
The template includes Terraform modules for deploying to AWS:
- VPC with proper network segmentation
- ECS for container orchestration
- ECR for image registry
- Application Load Balancer for traffic distribution
- S3 + CloudFront for static asset delivery
- AWS WAF for security
- Redis Cluster for caching
One-click Vercel deploy is also supported for teams that prefer managed infrastructure.
CI/CD & automation
Every pull request automatically gets:
- Bundle size comparison against main branch
- Lighthouse performance score tracking
- Linting and type-checking validation
- Test suite execution
- Preview deployment
Merge to main triggers semantic versioning, changelog generation, and deployment. The entire pipeline works out of the box.
Get started
Step 1: Create your project
Use the GitHub template or one-click Vercel deploy to create your own repository. All tooling, configuration, and CI/CD pipelines come pre-configured.
Step 2: Install dependencies
Run corepack enable && pnpm install
The project uses Corepack and pnpm for deterministic, fast package management.
Step 3: Start developing
pnpm dev starts the Next.js development server. pnpm storybook launches Storybook. pnpm test runs Vitest. Everything works from the first command.
Step 4: Deploy
Push to GitHub and the CI/CD pipeline handles the rest. Or use the included Terraform modules to deploy your own AWS infrastructure.
Roadmap
- Next.js 15 App Router patterns and best practices expansion
- Enhanced Terraform modules for multi-region deployments
- Built-in authentication patterns (OAuth, JWT)
- Database integration templates (Prisma, Drizzle)
- Monorepo support with Turborepo configuration
Outcome
Next Enterprise is the boilerplate we build every enterprise project on. 7,300+ GitHub stars and 1,900+ forks from teams who are tired of spending their first sprint on tooling configuration instead of building features.
Every tool is chosen from experience building Next.js applications for enterprise clients — the same experience behind 70% performance improvements, 4x development velocity gains, and zero-regression track records spanning 18+ months.
