Blank Template

The Blank template scaffolds a minimal Nextly project with no collections or singles defined. You get the full Next.js App Router setup, the admin route, the standard environment configuration, and an empty nextly.config.ts ready for you to fill in. It's the starting point when you want to design your schema from scratch.

Scaffold

pnpm create nextly-app my-app --template blank

npx create-nextly-app@latest my-app --template blank

yarn create nextly-app my-app --template blank

bun create nextly-app my-app --template blank

What it ships

• Empty nextly.config.ts with collections: [] and singles: []. Add definitions here as you build.
• Standard Next.js App Router setup -- root layout.tsx, page.tsx, globals.css, and a favicon.ico. The landing page is a simple "Welcome" screen with a link into the admin.
• Generated admin route at src/app/admin/[[...params]]/. The page wires up RootLayout, QueryProvider, ErrorBoundary, and the form-builder plugin's CSS imports. The layout reads admin branding from nextly.config.ts and injects the resulting CSS variables.
• Health and media routes under src/app/api/.
• Default next.config.ts with the canonical serverExternalPackages list. See Project Structure for the full list and what each entry does.
• Default .env.example with DB_DIALECT, DATABASE_URL, NEXTLY_SECRET, NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL, and a storage block populated based on the storage option you picked in the CLI.
• Generated nextly-types.ts stub under src/types/generated/ so type generation has a destination on first run.

File tree

my-app/
├── src/
│   ├── app/
│   │   ├── admin/
│   │   │   ├── [[...params]]/
│   │   │   │   ├── layout.tsx
│   │   │   │   └── page.tsx
│   │   │   └── api/
│   │   │       └── [[...params]]/
│   │   │           └── route.ts
│   │   ├── api/
│   │   │   ├── health/
│   │   │   │   └── route.ts
│   │   │   └── media/
│   │   │       └── [[...path]]/
│   │   │           └── route.ts
│   │   ├── favicon.ico
│   │   ├── globals.css
│   │   ├── layout.tsx
│   │   └── page.tsx
│   └── types/
│       └── generated/
│           └── nextly-types.ts
├── public/
├── .env
├── .env.example
├── eslint.config.mjs
├── next.config.ts
├── nextly.config.ts
├── package.json
├── postcss.config.mjs
└── tsconfig.json

Next steps

• Installation -- Create your super-admin account on first run.
• Quick Start -- Build something concrete (a blog with posts and categories) to learn the API.
• Configuration -- Define your first collections and singles in nextly.config.ts.