Overview:

The RESTful API Node Server Boilerplate is a starter project that allows users to quickly build RESTful APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, Express, and Prisma. It is an adaptation of the original project, with adaptations made to use a PostgreSQL database with Prisma ORM and to convert files to TypeScript.

Features:

SQL database: PostgreSQL object data modeling using Prisma ORM
Authentication and authorization: using passport
Validation: request data validation using Joi
Logging: using winston and morgan
Testing: unit and integration tests using Jest
Error handling: centralized error handling mechanism
API documentation: with swagger-jsdoc and swagger-ui-express
Process management: advanced production process management using PM2
Dependency management: with Yarn
Environment variables: using dotenv and cross-env
Security: set security HTTP headers using helmet
Sanitizing: sanitize request data against XSS and query injection
CORS: Cross-Origin Resource-Sharing enabled using cors
Compression: gzip compression with compression
Docker support
Code coverage: using coveralls
Code quality: with Codacy
Git hooks: with Husky and lint-staged
Linting: with ESLint and Prettier
Editor config: consistent editor configuration using EditorConfig

Summary:

The RESTful API Node Server Boilerplate is a versatile and feature-rich starter project for building RESTful APIs using Node.js. It provides a range of features such as database integration, authentication and authorization, validation, logging, testing, and error handling. With comprehensive documentation and a well-structured codebase, it offers a solid foundation for developers to quickly start developing secure and scalable RESTful APIs.

Antonio Lazaro

Prisma Express Typescript Boilerplate