Express Starter
A custom node starter template with preconfigured linting, unit tests and ci pipeilnes
Overview
The Express ES6 Starter is a custom NodeJS starter project designed for developers looking to streamline their workflow and enhance code quality. With its preconfigurations and templates, this project aids in shipping quality code efficiently and effectively, making it an excellent choice for those venturing into API development with Express. It seamlessly integrates essential tools for testing, linting, and deployment, ensuring developers can focus on building rather than setup.
This starter project notably enhances the development experience by providing an organized approach to code quality and project structure. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user, you'll find the features supportive, enabling you to create robust applications that adhere to best practices in coding.
Features
- Express Server: Utilizes the lightweight Express framework for rapid API development, ensuring easy handling of HTTP requests.
- Automatic Restart with Nodemon: Automatically restarts the Express server when changes are detected in the source directory, facilitating a smoother development process.
- Unit Specs with Jasmine: Comes with Jasmine preconfigured for unit testing, allowing you to validate functionality with straightforward testing syntax.
- ES Linter Integration: Ensures coding consistency by applying linting rules, promoting best practices such as no semicolons and consistent spacing.
- Development Workflow Enhancements: Offers auto reloading for the server, specs, and linter simultaneously, enhancing efficiency during development.
- Preflight Command: Simplifies checking code integrity before pushing by running all continuous integration stages with a single command.
- Docker Support: Includes a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml to ease the setup of a microservice architecture, helping avoid common pitfalls during containerization.
- Jenkins Pipeline Sample: Features a sample Jenkinsfile that outlines a basic pipeline structure, streamlining the CI/CD process with common stages included.
- Express
Express.js is a simple Node.js framework for single, multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.
- Docker
A website that uses Docker for containerization to streamline development, testing, and deployment workflows. This includes features such as containerization of dependencies, automated builds and deployments, and container orchestration to ensure scalability and availability.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.