paglias / expressjs-skeleton

A Skeleton app for Express.js

ExpressJS Skeleton App

Requirements

• node >= 6
• npm >= 3

Usage

• Clone the repo
• cp config.json.example config.json

Features

• Written in ES6
• async / await and ES6 modules support with BabelJS
• ESLint
• winston.js for logging
• nconf to manage configuration
• Custom error handler
• Includes only some middlewares (body-parser and morgan for development logging of requests)
• Automatic restarts on file change with Nodemon

Commands

• npm start
• npm start-watch
• npm start-production
• npm run build
• npm run build-watch
• npm run lint

TODO

• gzip?
• cluster support (or pm2)
• standard response format
• uncaughtException / domains
• only disable error logs in prod (not other logs)
• prevent multiple calls to setupNconf