The Epic Stack
Kent C. Dodds
Let's wake up
Your brain needs this 🧠
Content Warning
Sadness... 😭
Modern web development is fantastic.
There are so many great tools available!
exhausting.
Real talk
Almost whatever you choose will probably be fine.
And yet...
And you know it...
On the one hand
On the other
It'll probably be fine...
You have to live with this...
And then...
Getting everyone aligned
And...
And then...
wiring everything together...
But you just want to ship
I've been around.
And I've got opinions...
Introducing...
An opinionated project starter and reference
A Project Starter
npx create-epic-appA Reference Implementation
With 🤌 docs
github.com/
epicweb-dev/epic-stackDecision Documents
HT Remix team
github.com/epicweb-dev/ epic-stack/tree/main/docs/decisions
Guiding Principles
- Limit Services
- Include Only Most Common Use Cases
- Minimize Setup Friction
- Optimize for Adaptability
- Only One Way
- Offline Development
The opinions...
Today
Staging/Production deployment
Horizontally scalable / Multi-region setup
Transactional Email
User data export
Content-Security Policy
SEO (sitemap/robots)
Decision documents
Toast messages
Native ESM
Caching + Admin Cache management
Marketing pages
Error Boundaries
Username/Password
Two Factor Authentication
Email Verification
Profile Photo
Forgot Password
Extensible Third Party Auth
Change Email
Profile
Database migrations
Radix + Shadcn + Tailwind Components
Images
Role-Based Access Control
Fonts
Cross-site Request Forgery Protection
Server-timing headers
Healthcheck
Full-Trophy Testing with test database
Database seeding (local and production)
TypeSafe, Progressively Enhanced Forms (Zod + Conform)
Hot Module Replacement / Hot Data Revalidation
Cross-site scripting Protection
Rate Limiting
Production Error Tracking with Sentry
Built-in pre-configured swapfile
Production monitoring
Multi-instance SQLite
Honeypot
Secrets management
Destructive Re-verification
Theming
Icons
Local Offline Development Support
Server-side User Timezone detection
Examples
Framer Motion
Epic Stack + OpenAI
Prisma Client Extensions
Epic Stack + Storybook
Socket.IO
User Impersonation
Epic Stack + Tailwind CSS Plugin
Epic Stack + GitHub Auth
Epic Stack + MongoDB as the Database
Epic Stack Custom Themes
Epic Stack + OpenID Connect Auth (Google)
Epic Stack + Fathom Analytics
Epic Stack + Tenant Users
Epic Stack + i18n
Epic Stack + Argos
Epic Stack monorepo with pnpm + turbo
Unlikely...
More than one way to do the same thing.
Don't like the opinions? Forking is free ❤️
Help is welcome!
Especially examples!
github.com/epicweb-dev/
epic-stack/discussions
kcd.im/discord
Firm Foundation 🪨
Thank you!
The Epic Stack
By Kent C. Dodds
The Epic Stack
The Epic Stack is an opinionated project starter that allows teams to ship their ideas to production faster and on a more stable foundation based on the experience of Kent C. Dodds and contributors.
