Overview

This product is a REST API boilerplate built with TypeScript, Express, TypeORM, and Mocha. It provides a ready-to-use foundation for building RESTful APIs with a clean code architecture and a set of features for security, testing, documentation, and more.

Features

Basics: Clear and clean code architecture with classic layers (controllers, services, repositories, models). Object Relational Mapping with TypeORM. Business validation with self-designed business members.
Logs management: Using morgan and winston for logs management.
Changelog completion: Auto-changelog generation for easier documentation.
Testing: Included unit and end-to-end test sets built with Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Supertest.
Documentation: API documentation with api-doc.
Security: SSL secure connection with native HTTPS module. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). Securized HTTP headers with helmet. HTTP header pollution prevention with hpp. API request rate limit with express-rate-limit. Route validation with joi. HTTP-friendly errors with boom and http-status.
Authentication: JWT authentication process with passport.js. oAuth authentication process with passport.js.
Sending transactional emails: Utilizing the cliam library for sending transactional emails.
Performance: HTTP request cache with memory-cache. Database query cache with TypeORM caching.
Assets management: Customizable file upload with multer. Customizable image resizing with jimp.

Summary

This REST API boilerplate provides a solid foundation for building secure and performant APIs using TypeScript, Express, TypeORM, and Mocha. It includes features such as clear code architecture, logging, testing, and documentation, while also offering options for authentication, sending transactional emails, and managing assets. The installation guide helps users quickly set up the boilerplate and customize it for their own needs.

Steve Lebleu

Typeplate

Typeplate