Learn to build a web app with Cursor using Next.js, ShadCN, Postgres and MongoDB while exploring Cursor's productivity features.

• prompts/: shared and version controlled prompts that can be used for your team
• .cursorrules: specific Cursor instructions
• sql/: small sql scripts for setting up everything related to postgres

1. Install docker: Easiest setup is Docker Desktop or OrbStack (my personal preference)
2. Install cursor: https://www.cursor.com/ or brew install --cask cursor
3. Install dependencies with pnpm install (or remove lockfile and install with npm/yarn/bun)
4. Start the postgres docker container with pnpm pg:up and make sure it's running
5. Start the MongoDB docker container with pnpm mongo:up and make sure it's running
6. Start the Next.js app with pnpm dev

Now, we're ready to start prompting our app.

• Start PostgreSQL: pnpm pg:up
• Stop PostgreSQL: pnpm pg:down
• Reset PostgreSQL: pnpm pg:reset
• Check PostgreSQL status: pnpm pg:ping
• Open PostgreSQL shell: pnpm psql
• Run SQL tables script: pnpm pg:tables

• Start MongoDB: pnpm mongo:up
• Stop MongoDB: pnpm mongo:down
• Reset MongoDB: pnpm mongo:reset
• Check MongoDB status: pnpm mongo:ping
• Open MongoDB shell: pnpm mongo

• warp.dev terminal: terminal with built in completion capabilities
• LLM cli: cli tool to call LLMs directly in the terminal
  • Can be used together with this snippet to automatically generate commit messages
• Ollama: run LLMs locally (cli)
• LM Studio: run and visualise LLMs locally (gui)
• Ellipsis: automated code review in GitHub PRs
• Cursor Directory: a collection of prompts and .cursorrules files
• Cursor Lens: Cursor analytics

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