hredwan / izmjs

Enterprise grade NodeJS project

NodeJS, Express and MongoDB starter

Table of Content

• Getting Started
• Useful Commands
• VSCode helpers

Getting started

Using izm CLI

npx izm
# Then follow the wizard

Manual clone

git clone [e-mail]:izmjs/izmjs.git new-project
cd new-project
npm i
echo "NODE_ENV=development" > .env/.common.env
cp .example.env .env/.development.env

Optional: Add devtools functional module:

git clone [e-mail]:izmjs/devtools.git modules/devtools
npm i

Start the project

npm start

Useful Commands

• npm start - starts a dev server with nodemon
• npm test - runs tests with mocha
• npm run generate:module [name] - generate a new module (Optionnally you can give the name in the command line, otherwise you will be prompted to choose a name.)

VSCode helpers

iam

This shortcut will put a definition of new IAM rules in the file.

iam:route

Will generate a new route

iam:method

Will generate the definition of a method.

ctrl

Create new controller.

module:model

Generate a new mongoose model.

Auto depmloyment (Gitlab CI)

You need to define these environment variables in your repository:

• PRODUCTION_URL: The production URL
• PRODUCTION_DEPLOY_SERVER: List of production servers addresses or IP addresses. Should be separated by ,.
• PRODUCTION_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: The SSH key to use to connect to production servers.
• STAGING_URL: The staging URL
• STAGING_DEPLOY_SERVER: List of staging servers addresses or IP addresses. Should be separated by ,.
• STAGING_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: The SSH key to use to connect to staging servers.