next-forge 6 is now available
By Steven Van ·
Version 6 adds an installable agent skill, switches to Bun by default, and lets optional integrations degrade gracefully without their env vars.
next-forge, Vercel's Turborepo template for Next.js apps, has reached version 6, with an agent skill, Bun as the default package manager, and graceful degradation for optional integrations.
- An agent skill (installed with npx skills add vercel/next-forge) gives a coding agent structured knowledge of next-forge's architecture, packages, and common tasks.
- Bun is now the default package manager. The CLI's init script detects your current package manager before prompting, and pnpm, npm, and yarn are still supported.
- Optional integrations degrade gracefully when their environment variables are missing, instead of throwing errors: Stripe, PostHog, BaseHub, and feature flags all return safe defaults. The only environment variable required to boot the project is DATABASE_URL.
- A new quickstart guide gets a dev server running with just Clerk and a Postgres database, alongside a new Docker deployment guide and migration guides for Appwrite, Convex, and Novu.
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