edwinhern / express-typescript-2024

Express + TypeScript + Boilerplate for Web / API App

🚀 Express TypeScript Boilerplate 2024

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🌟 Introduction

Welcome to the Express TypeScript Boilerplate 2024 – a streamlined, efficient, and scalable foundation for building powerful backend services with modern tools and practices in Express.js and TypeScript.

💡 Motivation

This boilerplate aims to:

• ✨ Reduce setup time for new projects
• 📊 Ensure code consistency and quality
• ⚡ Facilitate rapid development
• 🛡️ Encourage best practices in security, testing, and performance

🚀 Features

• 📁 Modular Structure: Organized by feature for easy navigation and scalability
• 💨 Faster Execution with tsx: Rapid TypeScript execution with tsx and type checking with tsc
• 🌐 Stable Node Environment: Latest LTS Node version in .nvmrc
• 🔧 Simplified Environment Variables: Managed with Envalid
• 🔗 Path Aliases: Cleaner code with shortcut imports
• 🔄 Renovate Integration: Automatic updates for dependencies
• 🔒 Security: Helmet for HTTP header security and CORS setup
• 📊 Logging: Efficient logging with pino-http
• 🧪 Comprehensive Testing: Setup with Vitest and Supertest
• 🔑 Code Quality Assurance: Husky and lint-staged for consistent quality
• ✅ Unified Code Style: Biomejs for consistent coding standards
• 📃 API Response Standardization: ServiceResponse class for consistent API responses
• 🐳 Docker Support: Ready for containerization and deployment
• 📝 Input Validation with Zod: Strongly typed request validation using Zod
• 🧩 Swagger UI: Interactive API documentation generated from Zod schemas

🛠️ Getting Started

Video Demo

For a visual guide, watch the video demo to see the setup and running of the project.

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: 🚀 Initial Setup

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/edwinhern/express-typescript-2024.git
• Navigate: cd express-typescript-2024
• Install dependencies: npm ci

Step 2: ⚙️ Environment Configuration

• Create .env: Copy .env.template to .env
• Update .env: Fill in necessary environment variables

Step 3: 🏃‍♂️ Running the Project

• Development Mode: npm run dev
• Building: npm run build
• Production Mode: Set .env to NODE_ENV="production" then npm run build && npm run start

🤝 Feedback and Contributions

We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions for further improvements. Feel free to contribute and join us in making backend development cleaner and faster!

🎉 Happy coding!