⚡ Tigris and Next.js starter template

Tigris is a fully-managed developer data platform that offers a suite of databases and data services with a code-first approach, empowering you to build responsive applications without the hassle of infrastructure management and scaling complexities.

• Database: A fully-managed, serverless document database designed to run applications at any scale. Offers native support for global transactions, high availability, fault tolerance, data security and database branching.
• Search: A unified, fully-managed platform that combines database, full-text search and sync mechanism providing the easiest way to build search capabilities into applications.

To learn more about Tigris, see tigrisdata.com.

This template creates a simple todo app built on Next.js and Tigris and deployed on Vercel.

Project demo

https://tigris-nextjs-starter-kit.vercel.app/

⚙️ Deploying the app

All you need is a Github, Vercel and Tigris account(sign up for a free account). Now, Hit "Deploy" and follow instructions to deploy app to your Vercel account

🎉 All done. You should be able to use app on the URL provided by Vercel. Feel free to play around or do a code walkthrough next 🎉

Tigris integration with Vercel will automatically fetch access keys to populate Environment Variables when deploying app.

2. Running Next.js server & Tigris dev environment on your local computer

📖 Running Next.js server & Tigris locally

Prerequisites

1. Tigris installed on your dev computer
   1. For macOS: brew install tigrisdata/tigris/tigris-cli
   2. Other operating systems: See installation instructions here
2. Node.js version 16+

Instructions

1. Clone this repo on your computer

git clone https://github.com/tigrisdata/tigris-vercel-starter

2. Install dependencies

cd tigris-vercel-starter
npm install

3. Start Tigris local development environment

tigris dev start

4. Run the Next.js server

npm run dev

Note: This step will also initialize Tigris project and collections for app.

🎉 All done. You should be able to use app on localhost:3000 in browser. Feel free to play around or do a code walk-through next 🎉

👀 Code walkthrough

📂 File structure

├── package.json
├── lib
│   ├── tigris.ts
├── db
│   └── models
│       └── todoItems.ts
└── pages
    ├── index.tsx
    └── api
        ├── item
        │   ├── [id].ts
        └── items
            ├── index.ts
            └── search.ts

🪢 Tigris schema definition

db/models/todoItems.ts - The to-do list app has a single collection todoItems that stores the to-do items. This Collection gets automatically created/updated by the setup script.

🌐 Connecting to Tigris

lib/tigris.ts - Loads the environment variables you specified previously in creating a Vercel project section and uses them to configure the Tigris client.

❇️ API routes to access data in Tigris collection

All the Next.js API routes are defined under pages/api/. We have three files exposing endpoints:

pages/api/items/index.ts

• GET /api/items to get an array of to-do items as Array
• POST /api/items to add an item to the list

/pages/api/items/search.ts

• GET /api/items/search?q=query to find and return items matching the given query

pages/api/item/[id].ts

• GET /api/item/{id} to fetch an item
• PUT /api/item/{id} to update the given item
• DELETE /api/item/[id] to delete an item

🚀 Next steps

In a few steps, we learnt how to bootstrap a Next.js app using Tigris and deploy it on Vercel. Feel free to add more functionalities or customize App for your use-case and learn more about Tigris.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue. Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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