Egghead Getting Started with Chakra UI

Egghead Getting Started with Chakra UI is a starter project that accompanies the egghead.io course "Getting Started with Chakra UI," providing a minimal Next.js application pre-configured with Chakra UI for hands-on learning.

What is this template?

This is a companion codebase for the egghead.io course "Getting Started with Chakra UI." It is a simple Next.js project that you run locally to follow the course lessons, with Chakra UI already installed as the component library. The project is minimal by design, giving you a clean starting point rather than a full application. It is hosted on GitHub under the egghead.io course materials and has received 88 stars from the community.

Key Features

• Next.js project — Uses the standard Next.js project structure and runs with the typical React server-rendering setup.
• Chakra UI pre-installed — Includes Chakra UI as a dependency, allowing you to import its components immediately without additional configuration.
• Yarn-based workflow — yarn install sets up dependencies and yarn dev starts the development server.
• Course-focused — The project is designed to match the exercises in the egghead.io course, making it easy to follow along step by step.
• React components — You work with React inside Next.js pages and Chakra UI components, giving you direct exposure to the core technologies.
• Public GitHub repository — The project is openly available for anyone to clone or fork.

Who should use this template?

• Learners taking the Getting Started with Chakra UI course — They can clone the repository to write code alongside the instructor's lessons and compare their work against the finished UI.
• React developers new to Chakra UI — They can use the starter to experiment with Chakra UI components without configuring a build setup from scratch.
• Instructors or workshop leaders — They can distribute the starter to participants as a consistent base for guided exercises and tutorials.

What can you do with this template?

• Follow course lessons: Start the dev server and build UI examples that match the egghead.io course, then check your output against the final project.
• Prototype Chakra UI components: Use the pre-configured Next.js and Chakra UI setup to test component props, theming, and responsive styles quickly.
• Learn project setup: Inspect the minimal dependency list to see exactly what a Next.js + Chakra UI integration requires in a real project.

How does it work?

Clone the repository, run yarn install to install dependencies, then run yarn dev to launch the Next.js development server. The project has no custom scripts beyond the standard Next.js commands, so the workflow is just two steps from a fresh checkout.