Try Something New Club — a monthly meetup in Glasgow where people come together to learn a new skill, discover creative hobbies, and make new friends along the way.
This project powers the website and community platform for the Try Something New Club, an initiative encouraging curiosity and creativity through shared experiences.
Each month, the club hosts a surprise skill workshop — from crafts to coding — giving people a fun way to step outside their comfort zones and meet others doing the same.
The website acts as both an event hub and a community dashboard for sharing photos, links, and stories.
- 🗓️ Event Listings & Signups — explore and RSVP to upcoming sessions
- 🔐 Auth with Clerk — secure sign-in for members and admins
- ⚡ Realtime Database with Convex — live RSVPs and attendance tracking
- 📰 Contentful CMS Integration — easy content management for events and announcements
- 💬 Community Dashboard — members can share updates and photos from past events
- 🧩 Turborepo Monorepo Architecture — shared UI components and clean structure
- 🎨 ShadCN UI & TailwindCSS — accessible, responsive, and cohesive design system
- Framework: Next.js (App Router)
- Language: TypeScript
- Styling: TailwindCSS + ShadCN UI
- Authentication: Clerk
- Database: Convex
- CMS: Contentful
- Events: Lumo
- Monorepo: Turborepo
- Node.js (LTS recommended)
- pnpm (recommended) or npm/yarn
- Accounts for Clerk, Convex, and Contentful
git clone https://github.com/kelsiesmurphy/trysomethingnew.club.git
cd trysomethingnew.club
pnpm install
# or
npm install
# or
yarn
Create a .env.local file in the /apps root and include:
# ---- Configs ----
NEXT_PUBLIC_SHOW_COMING_SOON=false
NEXT_PUBLIC_USE_CMS=false
# ---- Contentful ----
NEXT_PUBLIC_CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID=XXXX
NEXT_PUBLIC_CONTENTFUL_ENVIRONMENT=XXXX
# Use this access token to consume published content (i.e. content in “Published” status)
NEXT_PUBLIC_CONTENTFUL_DELIVERY_ACCESS_TOKEN=XXXX
# Use this access token to preview and consume unpublished content (i.e. content in “Draft” status).
NEXT_PUBLIC_CONTENTFUL_PREVIEW_ACCESS_TOKEN=XXXX
pnpm run dev
# or
npm run dev
Visit http://localhost:3000 to view it locally.
- dev — Start development server
- build — Build for production
- start — Run production build
- lint — Check code quality
- format — Format with Prettier
Example usage:
pnpm run build
pnpm run dev
This is a Turborepo monorepo, consisting of:
apps/web— main Next.js web applicationpackages/ui— shared ShadCN UI componentspackages/eslint-config— ESLint config filespackages/typescriptco— Typescript config files
Try Something New Club — learn something new, meet someone new.