Next.js Best Practices in 2026: The Boilerplate I Built So I Stop Repeating Myself
Every serious Next.js project I start needs the same fifteen things before the actual product exists: authentication, layouts, permissions, environment validation, an API client, i18n, UI primitives, SEO metadata, tests, linting, formatting, Docker, CI, error tracking, analytics. None of that is the product. All of it has to exist before the product can ship. I kept rebuilding this foundation…
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