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title: Introduction
"og:title": "Getting started with Next-Fast-Turbo"
description: A starter project for FastAPI, Next.js and Turborepo.
---

## What is Next-Fast-Turbo?

Next-Fast-Turbo is designed as a personal starter kit for Next.js and FastAPI projects. It is a monorepo that includes a Next.js frontend and a FastAPI backend. The project is designed to be deployed to Vercel, but can be deployed to any platform that supports monorepos.

This documentation is not written to be a tutorial, but instead to be a reference for the project. It is designed to be a living document that can be updated as the project evolves.

## Features

**Frontend**\
The Next.js application comes with a fully built frontend that includes:

- A responsive layout
- A dashboard/sidebar design
- Pre-configured connection to the backend API
- Autogenerated TypeScript types based off the FastAPI OpenAPI schema
- A variety of design components, mostly from ShadCN UI (including chart examples)

**Backend**\
The FastAPI application comes with a fully built backend that includes:

- Example endpoints
- Pre-configured schema/crud operations
- Easily extensible to add more endpoints

**Documentation**\
Built using Mintlify, a fully responsive and configured documentation site that features:

- A fully built documentation site
- A variety of Mintlify components
- A fully configured mint.json

## Tech stack

Next-Fast-Turbo is fully open-source built using the following technologies:

**Frontend**

- [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/) - Framework for building React applications
- [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com/) - CSS framework
- [ShadCN UI](https://ui.shadcn.com/) - UI kit

**Backend**

- [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) - Python backend API

**Documentation**

- [Mintlify](https://mintlify.io/) - Documentation

**Global**

- [Vercel](https://vercel.com/) - hosting
- [Turbo](https://turbo.build/repo) - monorepo

## Getting started

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  <Card title="Local development" icon="code" href="local-development">
    Install the application locally
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  <Card title="Deployment" icon="code-branch" href="deployment/vercel">
    Deploy the monorepo to Vercel
  </Card>
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