ApexKit | The Opinionated Next.js Starter for Scale

[0.3.0] - 2026-05-16

Comprehensive UI Refactoring:
- Refactored Sign-in and Sign-up forms for improved composition, cleanliness, and optimized page rendering, reducing prop drilling.
- Refactored Reset Password page for co-located form components and streamlined data flow.
- Refactored Profile page into smaller, manageable chunks.
- Refactored Landing page and Footer for cleanliness, responsiveness, and visual consistency.
- Updated Homepage's tools and features section to use a static _data directory.
- Integrated new Button, Input, Modal, and Alert components across various pages (Sign-in, Sign-up, Reset Password, Update Email).
Authentication Improvements:
- Refactored signOut function to actions/auth for better organization and removed redundant profile redirect logic.
- Ensured consistent server actions for reset password functionality.
Documentation:
- Updated README to reflect new folder structure.
Security Enhancements:
- Switched to Next 15.5.18 (version with patch) to address recently discovered security vulnerabilities. Ref

Fixed broken tests related to update email functionality.
Fixed tests to align with the new reset password function pattern.
Resolved button display issues on the profile update page.
Fixed build errors related to dynamic rendering by introducing a dynamic render parameter.
Resolved dependency issues for Vercel builds.
Refactored code to use font-aweosome instead of lucide-react throughout the app.

Vitest Setup
Added tests for authentication:
- Implemented comprehensive unit tests for user sign-up, covering success, existing email errors, and unexpected failures.
- Developed robust unit tests for email-based sign-in, including successful login, invalid credential handling, and error scenarios.
- Introduced tests for magic link sign-in, verifying link dispatch, unrecognized email flows, and system errors.
- Created tests for password reset requests, ensuring email dispatch and graceful handling of unknown emails or system issues.
- Implemented rigorous tests for password reset functionality, validating new password criteria, successful resets, and error conditions.
- Added tests for Google social sign-in, confirming integration and error resilience.
- Developed tests for email update functionality, verifying successful updates, invalid email formats, and various error states.
Style guide with Biome
- Added a STYLEGUIDE.md file to core rules to maintain code quality.
- Implemented Biome to lint and format code.
- Applied changes to the existing codebase to align with the style guide.

Refactored /src/app/sign-up/page.tsx to utilize useState instead of useActionState to avoid dead code.
Added environment variable for BASE_URL and passed it to auth config at /src/auth/index.ts to handle better-auth warning. Users should ensure BASE_URL is configured in their environment variables to avoid warnings.