Git-centric workflows have fundamentally changed how we build for the web, with isolated environments for development and testing being crucial. However, our back-end data layer is still a single branch, often tied to long-running servers or production environments. PlanetScale, a serverless database, offers schema branching, deploy requests, and non-blocking schema changes, allowing for isolation between staging and production environments. A new Next.js starter app has been created, which can be deployed to Netlify with the "Deploy to Netlify" button, using NextAuth.js for authentication and Prisma to interact with the PlanetScale database. The starter app is designed to get users started right away, with an admin page to view users and customize the application. Feedback from PlanetScale users led to the implementation of NextAuth.js for authentication, allowing integration with various providers like GitHub and Google.