Lightweight Next.js 16 Starter: Build Tool Sites, Content Sites & Landing Pages Fast

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i18n
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newsletter
email-subscription
resend
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A lightweight Next.js 16 starter template for quickly launching small websites. Clone, configure, deploy in minutes. Built-in i18n, MDX blog, and SEO. Perfect for free tool sites, content sites, and landing pages.

Why You Need a Next.js Starter Template

Building a modern website from scratch is time-consuming. You need to set up routing, styling, internationalization, SEO, analytics, and more. That's where a well-crafted starter template becomes invaluable.

Next.js Starter is a lightweight, multilingual Next.js 16 template designed for quickly launching small websites. Whether you're building a free tool site, content site, personal blog, or landing page β€” clone it, configure it, and deploy in minutes.

Essential Features, Nothing More

🌐 Built-in Internationalization (i18n)

One of the biggest challenges in building global websites is implementing proper internationalization. This template comes with next-intl integration, supporting:

Adding a new language is as simple as:

  1. Creating a new translation file in i18n/messages/
  2. Updating the routing configuration
  3. Adding content for the new locale

πŸ“ MDX Blog System

Write your blog posts in MDX - the perfect combination of Markdown simplicity and React component power:

🎨 Modern UI with Tailwind CSS

The template uses Tailwind CSS combined with shadcn/ui components:

βš™οΈ Centralized Site Configuration

All your site information in one place - just edit config/site.ts:

export const siteConfig = {
  name: "Your Site Name",
  tagLine: 'Your Tagline',
  description: "Your site description",
  url: BASE_URL,
  authors: [{ name: "You", url: "https://yoursite.com" }],
  socialLinks: { twitter, github, discord, email },
  icons: { icon, shortcut, apple },
}

No more hunting through multiple files to update basic information. Change it once, and it reflects everywhere - in metadata, footer, Open Graph tags, and more.

πŸ“„ Ready-to-Use Legal Pages

Every website needs legal pages. This template includes multilingual templates for:

Each page supports all three languages (en, zh, ja) out of the box. Just customize the MDX content to match your needs.

πŸ” SEO Essentials

The template includes a practical metadata utility (lib/metadata.ts) that handles:

Just call constructMetadata() with your page info and get perfectly formatted metadata for search engines and social sharing.

πŸ“Š One-Line Analytics Integration

Track your visitors with multiple analytics platforms - just add your IDs to .env:

NEXT_PUBLIC_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS=G-XXXXXXXX

NEXT_PUBLIC_GOOGLE_ADSENSE=ca-pub-XXXXXXXX

NEXT_PUBLIC_PLAUSIBLE_DOMAIN=yourdomain.com
NEXT_PUBLIC_PLAUSIBLE_SRC=https://

Supported platforms:

Each analytics component is conditionally loaded only in production, keeping your development environment clean.

πŸ“§ Simple Newsletter with Resend

A basic newsletter subscription to start building your audience:

The newsletter feature uses Resend - a modern email API built for developers. Simply add your Resend API key to the environment variables:

RESEND_API_KEY=your_resend_api_key
RESEND_AUDIENCE_ID=your_audience_id

You also get pre-built React email templates in the emails/ folder:

Tech Stack

Minimal but practical:

| Technology | Purpose | |------------|---------| | Next.js 16 | React framework with App Router | | TypeScript | Type-safe development | | Tailwind CSS | Utility-first styling | | shadcn/ui | High-quality UI components | | next-intl | Internationalization | | MDX | Content authoring | | Zustand | State management | | Resend | Email services |

Getting Started in 5 Minutes

Prerequisites

Quick Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/weijunext/nextjs-starter.git
cd nextjs-starter

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Copy environment variables
cp .env.example .env

# Start development server
pnpm dev

Visit http://localhost:3000 and your site is running!

One-Click Deploy to Vercel

The fastest way to go live is using Vercel's one-click deployment:

Deploy with Vercel

Project Structure

nextjs-starter/
β”œβ”€β”€ app/[locale]/     # Internationalized pages
β”œβ”€β”€ blogs/            # MDX blog content by language
β”œβ”€β”€ components/       # Reusable React components
β”œβ”€β”€ config/           # Site configuration
β”œβ”€β”€ content/          # Static page content (MDX)
β”œβ”€β”€ i18n/             # Translation files & routing
β”œβ”€β”€ lib/              # Utility functions
└── public/           # Static assets

Who Should Use This Template?

This template is perfect for quickly launching small websites:

πŸ’‘ Need user auth, payments, or a database? This template is intentionally minimal and doesn't include those features. If you're building a SaaS product that needs user login and subscription payments, check out NEXTY.DEV. Same tech stack, but with Better-Auth, Drizzle ORM and Stripe/Creem built-in. Simple rule: this free template is for simple small websites, NEXTY is for complex product sites.

Why This Template?

Unlike bloated starters, this template is:

  1. Minimal β€” Only essential features, no unnecessary complexity
  2. Fast to deploy β€” Clone, configure, deploy in minutes
  3. Battle-tested β€” Used by successful products, including the winner of a major SEO competition (5.26M unique visitors in 5 months)
  4. Actively maintained β€” Kept up-to-date with latest Next.js versions

Resources

Conclusion

Stop wasting time on boilerplate.

This template does one thing: help you launch a multilingual small website as fast as possible. i18n, blog, SEO, analytics, newsletter β€” all the essentials are here, nothing more. Clone, configure, deploy. Ship today.

Have questions or suggestions? Open an issue on GitHub or join our Discord community.