Boilerplate/Generator/Starter Project for building RESTful APIs and microservices using Node.js, Express and MongoDB
- 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 generation with apidoc
- Continuous integration support with travisCI
- Monitoring with pm2
- Node v7.6+ or Docker
- Yarn
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielfsousa/express-rest-es2017-boilerplate
cd express-rest-es2017-boilerplate
rm -rf .gityarncp .env.example .envyarn devyarn start# lint code with ESLint
yarn lint
# try to fix ESLint errors
yarn lint:fix
# lint and watch for changes
yarn lint:watch# 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# run lint and tests
yarn validate# show logs in production
pm2 logs# generate and open api documentation
yarn docs# run container locally
yarn docker:dev
# run container in production
yarn docker:prod
# run tests
yarn docker:testSet your server ip:
DEPLOY_SERVER=127.0.0.1Replace my Docker username with yours:
nano deploy.shRun deploy script:
yarn deploy