Initialize and Configure a Fauna Database inside a Next.js project with fauna-shell

The first step is to install and configure our database that will be backing our Next.js application. We'll be using Fauna so we head over to the Fauna website and create a database.

Back in our terminal we will install fauna-shell so we can interact and manage our database from within our project. After some initializing steps from the CLI we'll be set up to build the app out.