Create-Express-App

Create an express application without setting it up yourself

Note

There isn't an npm package at the time of creation but it will be created soon. If you still want to try it out

git clone https://github.com/BeenHashed/create-express-app.git
cd create-express-app
npm link
create-express-app my-app

Overview

npx create-express-app my-app

This will create a directory called "my-app" with express and the cors module installed by default in the MVC architecture but you can also change the template to an EJS template or a minimal template.

You can also install create-express-app globally and use it from there if you so choose but using npx is recommened using npx to ensure that you always use the latest version of create-express-app.

npm install -g create-express-app
create-express-app m-yapp

The Default Project Structure will look like this after its been created

my-app
├── controllers
├── models
├── views
├── routes
├── index.js
├── package.json

Flags Overview

There are flags in create-express-app to make it more dynamic to fit your needs. There are currently 4 flags in create-express-app They are -t, -a, -f, and -i

-t

The -t flag changes the template of the express application. There are 3 templates which are MVC, EJS, and none All the flags can be used together The default template is MVC but you can still be explicit if you want

npx create-express-app my-app -t mvc

my-app
├──  node_modules
├── controllers
├── models
├── views
├── routes
├── index.js
├── package.json

npx create-express-app my-app -t ejs

my-app
├──  node_modules
├── controllers
├── models
├── views
    ├──  index.ejs
├── index.js
├── package.json

npx create-express-app my-app -t none

my-app
├──  node_modules
├── index.js
├── package.json

-a

The -a flag adds new folders to your project Example

npx create-express-app my-app -a logs lib

-f

The -f flag adds new files to your project Example

npx create-express-app my-app -a somthing.js README.md

-i

The -i flag installs other npm packages to your files Example

npx create-express-app my-app -i mongoose lodash

License

The license for this project is MIT.