/nodejs-express-starter

A boilerplate to quick start a Nodejs/ExpressJs/Mongoose API project.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Express & ES6 REST API Boilerplate

This is a straightforward boilerplate for building REST APIs with ES6 and Express.

  • ES6 support via babel
  • CORS support via cors
  • Body Parsing via body-parser
  • Mongoose
  • Helmet
  • Compression
  • LogDNA & Bunyan
  • Sentry
  • Forest Admin
  • Prettier & Eslint
  • Debug for logging to console

Getting Started

# clone it
git clone git@github.com:gautiert/nodejs-express-starter.git project-name
cd project-name

# Make it your own
rm -rf .git && git init && npm init

# Install dependencies
yarn

# Set environment
cp .env.example .env

# Start development live-reload server
PORT=8080 yarn run dev

# Build a production version
yarn run build

# Start production server:
PORT=8080 yarn start

License

MIT