StudyStack

StudyStack is an open-source starter kit for building customizable online learning platforms. Originally developed for a private project that was later dissolved, it's been repurposed and made public as a flexible, community-driven codebase. It's not a full SaaS — think of it as a demo, a proof of concept, and a foundation you can build on.

Built with SvelteKit and the latest features from Svelte 5, it integrates Prisma, Tailwind CSS, and Playwright for a modern developer experience.

✨ Features

• Engaging course and lesson interface
• Secure user authentication
• Type-safe DB layer using Prisma
• End-to-end testing with Playwright
• Clean, responsive UI powered by Tailwind CSS

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🤝 Contributing

StudyStack was built by a solo dev and is released for the community. Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open an issue or PR — especially for:

• Bug fixes
• Feature suggestions
• Docs improvements

Just please keep in mind that this is not a full product with active long-term support — it's more of a public template for others to learn from or fork into their own projects.

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🚀 Getting Started

Follow the platform-specific setup instructions below to get your development environment up and running. Once set up, start your dev servers with:

pnpm dev           # Standard SvelteKit dev server
pnpm vercel-dev    # Simulates Vercel Edge config for closer production testing

You’ll need Node.js (via NVM), Git, PlanetScale CLI, and other common development tools.

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🛠 Development Environment Setup

MacOS

1. Install Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

2. Install Node Version Manager: NVM Docs
3. Install Git: brew install git
4. Install PlanetScaleCLI: brew install planetscale/tap/pscale
5. Install JQ: brew install jq
6. Install MySQL CLI: brew install mysql-client
7. Install GitHub CLI: brew install gh
8. Install Node.js: nvm install --lts
9. Confirm Node install: node -v
10. Enable PNPM via corepack: corepack enable pnpm
11. Install PNPM: corepack use pnpm@latest
12. Clone the repo:

git clone [email protected]:shawn636/study-stack.git

13. Install dependencies: pnpm install
14. (Optional) Set Zsh as default terminal in VS Code
15. Run dev servers using pnpm dev and/or pnpm vercel-dev

Windows

1. Open PowerShell and install Scoop:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression

2. Install Git
3. Install NVM for Windows
4. Install PlanetScale CLI & MySQL:

scoop bucket add pscale https://github.com/planetscale/scoop-bucket.git
scoop install pscale mysql

5. Install JQ: scoop install main/jq
6. Install GitHub CLI: scoop install gh
7. Install Node.js: nvm install --lts
8. Confirm install: node -v
9. Enable corepack: corepack enable pnpm
10. Install PNPM: corepack use pnpm@latest
11. Clone the repo: git clone [email protected]:shawn636/study-stack.git
12. Install dependencies: pnpm install
13. Start dev servers: pnpm dev and/or pnpm vercel-dev

Ubuntu

1. Install NVM:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash

2. Install Git: sudo apt install git-all
3. Install PlanetScale CLI
4. Install JQ: sudo apt install jq
5. Install GitHub CLI:

sudo mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings \
&& wget -qO- https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null \
&& sudo chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
&& echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null \
&& sudo apt update && sudo apt install gh -y

6. Install MySQL CLI: sudo apt-get install mysql-client
7. Install Node.js: nvm install --lts
8. Confirm install: node -v
9. Enable corepack: corepack enable pnpm
10. Install PNPM: corepack use pnpm@latest
11. Clone the repo: git clone [email protected]:shawn636/study-stack.git
12. Install dependencies: pnpm install
13. Run servers: pnpm dev and/or pnpm vercel-dev

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Scripts

• pnpm run dev – Local dev server
• pnpm run build – Build for production
• pnpm run test – Run Playwright tests
• pnpm run lint – Format and lint the code
• pnpm run check – Type and syntax checking

Testing

End-to-end testing is handled via Playwright and Vitest.

pnpm run test

You can also run other test-related scripts as needed for development or CI.

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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If you end up using this project for something cool, let me know — I’d love to check it out!