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Guiding Principles

  1. Files that change together should live together.
  2. Minimal requirements, maximum flexibility

Example file structure

├── app/
│   ├── blitz-client.ts
│   ├── blitz-server.ts
│   ├── core/
│   │   ├── components/
│   │   │   ├── Form.tsx
│   │   │   └── LabeledTextField.tsx
│   │   ├── hooks/
│   │   │   └── useCurrentUser.ts
│   │   └── layouts/
│   │       └── Layout.tsx
│   ├── auth/
│   │   ├── components/
│   │   │   ├── LoginForm.tsx
│   │   │   └── SignupForm.tsx
│   │   ├── mutations/
│   │   │   ├── login.ts
│   │   │   ├── logout.ts
│   │   │   └── signup.ts
│   │   ├── pages/
│   │   │   ├── login.tsx
│   │   │   └── signup.tsx
│   │   ├── auth-utils.ts
│   │   └── validations.ts
│   ├── users/
│   │   └── queries/
│   │       └── getCurrentUser.ts
│   └── projects/
│       ├── components/
│       │   ├── Project.js
│       │   ├── ProjectForm.js
│       │   └── Projects.js
│       ├── mutations/
│       │   ├── createProject.js
│       │   ├── createProject.test.js
│       │   ├── deleteProject.js
│       │   ├── deleteProject.test.js
│       │   ├── updateProject.js
│       │   └── updateProject.test.js
│       └── queries/
│           ├── getProject.js
│           └── getProjects.js
├── pages/
│   ├── api/
│   │   └── stripe-webhook.js
│   ├── 404.tsx
│   ├── _app.tsx
│   ├── _document.tsx
│   ├── index.test.tsx
│   ├── index.tsx
│   └── projects/
│       ├── [id]/
│       │   └── edit.js
│       ├── [id].js
│       ├── index.js
│       └── new.js
├── db/
│   ├── index.ts
│   ├── schema.prisma
│   └── seeds.ts
├── integrations/
│   └── sentry.ts
├── public/
│   ├── favicon.ico*
│   └── logo.png
├── test/
│   ├── setup.ts
│   └── utils.tsx
├── README.md
├── babel.config.js
├── blitz.config.js
├── jest.config.js
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
├── types.ts
└── yarn.lock

app

Contains all your core application code.

  • The file structure nested inside app/ can be anything you want, but we recommend the following:
    • First layer folders to be a "domain context", like core/, projects/, users/, billing/, etc.
    • All other folders like components/ and hooks/ go inside one of the above domain context folders
  • queries/ and mutations/ are for your Blitz queries and mutations. Each query and mutation is exposed at a URL corresponding to its file path.
  • blitz-client.ts and blitz-server.ts contain Blitz Toolkit setup.

db

Contains database configuration, schema, and migration files. db/index.js exports your initialized database client so you can use it anywhere in your app.

integrations

Contains third-party integration code. Ex: auth0.js, twilio.js, etc. These files are a good place to instantiate a client with shared configuration.

pages

Has the same semantics as the Next.js pages folder. All files in here are mapped to the url corresponding to their file paths.

api

Any file inside the folder pages/api is mapped to /api/* and will be treated as an API endpoint instead of a page. They are server-side only bundles and won't increase your client-side bundle size.

public

All files in here are served statically from your app's root URL

Other Notes

  • All top level folders are automatically aliased. So for example you can import from app/projects/queries/getProject from anywhere in our app.

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