How to use this template:
npx create-express-api --typescript --directory my-api-name
Includes API Server utilities:
- morgan
- HTTP request logger middleware for node.js
- helmet
- Helmet helps you secure your Express apps by setting various HTTP headers. It's not a silver bullet, but it can help!
- dotenv
- Dotenv is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a
.env
file intoprocess.env
- Dotenv is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a
- cors
- CORS is a node.js package for providing a Connect/Express middleware that can be used to enable CORS with various options.
- @prisma/client
- Prisma Client JS is an auto-generated query builder that enables type-safe database access and reduces boilerplate. You can use it as an alternative to traditional ORMs such as Sequelize, TypeORM or SQL query builders like knex.js.
- bcryptjs
- Optimized bcrypt in JavaScript with zero dependencies. Compatible to the C++ bcrypt binding on node.js and also working in the browser.
- jsonwebtoken
- An implementation of JSON Web Tokens. This was developed against draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-08. It makes use of node-jws
Development utilities:
- typescript
- TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript.
- ts-node
- TypeScript execution and REPL for node.js, with source map and native ESM support.
- nodemon
- nodemon is a tool that helps develop node.js based applications by automatically restarting the node application when file changes in the directory are detected.
- eslint
- ESLint is a tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code.
- typescript-eslint
- Tooling which enables ESLint to support TypeScript.
- jest
- Jest is a delightful JavaScript Testing Framework with a focus on simplicity.
- supertest
- HTTP assertions made easy via superagent.
npm install
npm run lint
npm run test
npm run dev