Architecture

Overview

ZeroStarter is built with a modern, type-safe tech stack designed for high performance and developer experience. This page covers all the technologies and tools used in the project.

Architecture and Tech Stack

• Runtime & Build System: Bun + Turborepo
• Frontend: Next.js 16 (App Router, bundled by Turbopack)
• Backend: Hono
• RPC: Hono Client for end-to-end type safety with frontend client
• Database: PostgreSQL with Drizzle ORM
• Authentication: Better Auth with organizations, teams, and an admin plugin
• Admin Console: /console route group gated by role === "admin" (Better Auth admin plugin)
• Rate Limiting: hono-rate-limiter with @arcjet/ip for IP detection
• Analytics: PostHog for product analytics, feature flags, and session recordings
• Styling: Tailwind CSS
• UI Components: Shadcn UI built on Base UI primitives
• Data Fetching: TanStack Query
• Forms: TanStack Form
• Validation: Zod
• Dynamic OG Images: takumi-js for Open Graph image generation
• Bundling, Linting & Formatting: tsdown (bundles the backend packages), Oxlint and Oxfmt
• API Documentation: Scalar UI at /api/docs, served from the auto-generated OpenAPI spec at /api/openapi.json
• Documentation: Fumadocs with auto-generated llms.txt and llms-full.txt
• Automated Releases: Automatically updated Changelog on release

Roadmap

We're actively working on integrations for AI, analytics, background tasks, email, payments, and more.

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