Node Express.js Backend Starter Template

Description

Starter Template for building demos and apps with node.js and express.js
Main purpose of this starter is to save developers time, which is usually spend on creating basic skeletons and structure when building demos and apps with nodejs and express.js

What's inside

• Pre-defined structure
• Prepared code for databases connections
• Pre-defined api controllers and services
• Prepared validations for api
• Pre-defined global app errors handling
• Prepared strucure for middlewares
• Prettier configerd
• Eslint configured
• Jest test environment configured
• Swagger open api docs prepared for implementation
• Pm2 support for production

Before use

Envs

You need to setup envs before using the starter.

$ touch .env # create env file
# check .env.example for envs names

How to use

• Before first launch:
  

   # before fisrt start
   npm install

• Start/stop app:
  

    # run in dev mode
    npm run start:dev 
  
    # run in prod mode
    npm run start:prod
  
    #run tests
    npm run test[:watch/:coverage]
  
    #format with prettier
    npm run format

Swagger docs

Starter has pre-defined support of swagger docs. If open api docs are needed, expand swagger.json file with needed docs

What's next

Main purpose of this starter template is to rid developers of creating the basic projects skeleton and spending a lot of time with setting up demos and projects configs.

• Feel free to use this starter template for building own apps, modify it as you need and actually change it whatever you like to fit your project demands.
  
• Feel free to add the database connection(s) that you need in the app.
• Feel free to add the auth strategies that you need in the app.