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Express ES2017 REST API Boilerplate

Boilerplate/Generator/Starter Project for building RESTful APIs and microservices using Node.js, Express and MongoDB

Features

  • No transpilers, just vanilla javascript
  • ES2017 latest features like Async/Await
  • CORS enabled
  • Uses yarn
  • Express + MongoDB (Mongoose)
  • Consistent coding styles with editorconfig
  • Docker support
  • Uses helmet to set some HTTP headers for security
  • Load environment variables from .env files with dotenv
  • Request validation with joi
  • Gzip compression with compression
  • Linting with eslint
  • Tests with mocha, chai and sinon
  • Code coverage with istanbul and coveralls
  • Git hooks with husky
  • Logging with morgan
  • Authentication and Authorization with passport
  • API documentation geratorion with apidoc
  • Continuous integration support with travisCI
  • Monitoring with pm2

Requirements

Getting Started

Clone the repo and make it yours:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielfsousa/express-rest-es2017-boilerplate
cd express-rest-es2017-boilerplate
rm -rf .git

Install dependencies:

yarn

Set environment variables:

cp .env.example .env

Running Locally

yarn dev

Running in Production

yarn start

Lint

# lint code with ESLint
yarn lint

# try to fix ESLint errors
yarn lint:fix

# lint and watch for changes
yarn lint:watch

Test

# run all tests with Mocha
yarn test

# run unit tests
yarn test:unit

# run integration tests
yarn test:integration

# run all tests and watch for changes
yarn test:watch

# open nyc test coverage reports
yarn coverage

Validate

# run lint and tests
yarn validate

Logs

# show logs in production
pm2 logs

Documentation

# generate and open api documentation
yarn docs

Docker

# run container locally
yarn docker:dev
or
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml up

# run container in production
yarn docker:prod
or
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml up

# run tests
yarn docker:test
or
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.test.yml up

Inspirations

License

MIT License - Tandemly

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