Next Elite - An open source production-ready Next.js starter kit

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Next Elite is a frontend-first Next.js boilerplate designed to consume APIs (REST/GraphQL/BFF) instead of owning a database, allowing you to drop it on top of any backend you already have. It is feature-based, offering a polished developer experience (DX), built-in role-based access control (RBAC), type-safe internationalization (i18n), and is optimized for speed, SEO, and developer productivity.

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I kept starting projects and spending the first few days on the same boring setup. Cleaned it up once, made it a starter. Yeah LLM prompting exists. But generated UI is never quite right in real projects - spacing, accessibility etc. You have to prompt again and again to fix it. You're burning LLM tokens on the same boring setup every single time for no reason. And LLMs don't maintain consistency across dynamic components or feature-based structure. If you're giving the same instructions or maintaining .md files every single time, why not just have it done right once. So i Built and Open sourced this. This is a frontend-first api-driven Next.js boilerplate designed to consume APIs (REST/GraphQL/BFF) instead of owning a database, allowing you to drop it on top of any backend you already have. It is feature-based, offering a polished developer experience (DX), built-in role-based access control (RBAC), type-safe internationalization (i18n), and is optimized for speed, SEO, and developer productivity. 
What's actually included: # BetterAuth with RBAC using Next.js parallel routes — /dashboard stays one route, renders differently per role (, )) # next-intl with cookie-based locale, no URL prefix, 6 languages including RTL # Feature-based folder structure # Type-safe env with T3 Env + Zod, fails at startup not runtime # Full DX: Lefthook, Commitlint, Knip, Renovate, GitHub Actions CI # Docker + Vercel deploy