Node Express Mongoose Typescript Boilerplate
A boilerplate for making production-ready RESTful APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, Express, and Mongoose
Overview
The RESTful API Node Typescript Server Boilerplate is a production-ready Node.js TypeScript app that can be easily installed and configured on your machine. It comes with various built-in features such as authentication using JWT, request validation, unit and integration tests, continuous integration, docker support, API documentation, and pagination. However, it is important to note that this app is not compatible with Node.js v19 or higher due to the deprecation of certain flags.
Features
- ES9: Supports the latest ECMAScript features
- Static Typing: Implements TypeScript static typing using TypeScript
- Hot Reloading: Enables hot reloading with concurrently
- NoSQL database: Uses MongoDB and Mongoose for object data modeling
- Authentication and authorization: Integrates passport for authentication and authorization
- Validation: Provides request data validation using Joi
- Logging: Implements logging using winston and morgan
- Testing: Includes unit and integration tests using Jest
- Error handling: Implements a centralized error handling mechanism
- API documentation: Provides API documentation using swagger-jsdoc and swagger-ui-express
- Process management: Uses PM2 for advanced production process management
- Dependency management: Supports Yarn for dependency management
- Environment variables: Uses dotenv and cross-env for handling environment variables
- Security: Sets security HTTP headers using helmet
- Data sanitization: Sanitizes request data against XSS and query injection
- CORS support: Implements Cross-Origin Resource-Sharing using cors
- Compression: Enables gzip compression with compression
- Continuous integration: Supports continuous integration with GitHub CI
- Docker support: Includes Docker support for containerization
- Code coverage: Utilizes codecov for code coverage analysis
- Code quality: Integrates Codacy for code quality analysis
- Git hooks: Uses husky and lint-staged for Git hooks
- Linting: Implements ESLint and Prettier for linting
- Editor config: Provides consistent editor configuration using EditorConfig
- Changelog generation: Includes Standard Version for generating changelogs
- Structured commit messages: Implements Commitizen for structured commit messages
- Commit linting: Utilizes CommitLint for commit linting
Summary
The RESTful API Node Typescript Server Boilerplate is a comprehensive and feature-rich Node.js TypeScript app that is easy to install and configure. It provides various built-in functionalities such as authentication, request validation, testing, documentation, and more. However, it is not compatible with Node.js v19 or higher. Overall, it is a powerful tool for developers looking to quickly set up a production-ready Node.js app.
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