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trpc/examples-next-prisma-starter
🚀 tRPC starter repo with E2E-testing
A starter template wiring together Next.js, tRPC, and Prisma with a simple posts example. Maintained by the tRPC core team, so it stays current with tRPC itself. Good for developers who want a working baseline rather than piecing the stack together from documentation.
E2E tests with Playwright are actually included and wired into CI, not just promised in the README. The `pnpm dx` command spins up Postgres, runs migrations, seeds, and starts the dev server in one shot — genuinely useful for onboarding. Environment variable validation at build time catches misconfiguration before runtime. Render blueprint lets you deploy a real database-backed app in under five minutes without touching infrastructure config.
Still on Next.js Pages Router — App Router migration hasn't happened, so you're starting with patterns that Next.js itself is moving away from. The example domain is a toy posts CRUD with no auth, so you'll rip out most of the application code anyway; it's closer to a stack demo than a real starter. Prisma migrations haven't been touched since 2022, suggesting the schema has been frozen rather than evolved alongside the app. No rate limiting, input sanitization beyond Zod types, or any security primitives — you're on your own the moment you expose this publicly.