Node Clean Architecture

An opinionated boilerplate for Node web APIs focused on separation of concerns and scalability with Uncle Bob Clean Architecture implementation.

Features

Union - Layered folder structure: Code organization inspired by DDD and Clean Architecture focused on codebase scalability.
Instant feedback and reload: Use Nodemon to automatically reload the server after a file change when on development mode, makes the development faster and easier.
Ready for production: Setup with PM2 process manager ready to go live on production..
Scalable and easy to use web server: Use Express for requests routing and middlewares. There are some essential middlewares for web APIs already setup, like body-parser, compression, CORS and method-override.
Database integration: Mongoose, a MongoDB Database Connection, is already integrated, you just have to set the authentication configurations.
Prepared for testing: The test suite uses Mocha/Chai and is prepared to run unit, integration and functional tests right from the beginning. A FactoryGirl adapter for Mongo is setup to make your tests DRY as well, and the tests generate code coverage measurement with Istanbul. You should read about the Chai plugins that are setup by default too.
Dependency injection: With Awilix, a practical dependency injection library, the code will not be coupled and it'll still be easy to resolve automatically the dependencies on the runtime and mock them during the tests. It's even possible inject dependencies on your controllers with the Awilix Express adapter.
Logging: The Log4js logger is highly pluggable, being able to append the messages to a file during the development and send them to a logging service when on production. Even the requests (through morgan) and queries will be logged.
Linter: It's also setup with ESLint to make it easy to ensure a code styling and find code smells.

Quick start

Notice that the boilerplate comes with a small application for user management already, you can delete it with a npm script after you understand how the boilerplate works but please do the quick start first! 😊

Clone the repository with git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/asyrafduyshart/node-clean-architecture
Setup the database on config/database.js (there's an example file there to be used with MongoDB 😉 )
Install the dependencies with yarn (click here if you don't have Yarn installed)
Create the development and test databases you have setup on config/database.js
Run the application in development mode with npm run dev
Access http://localhost:3000/api/users and you're ready to go!

Scripts

This boilerplate comes with a collection of npm scripts to make your life easier, you'll run them with npm run <script name> or yarn run <script name>:

dev: Run the application in development mode
start Run the application in production mode (prefer not to do that in development)
test: Run the test suite
test:unit: Run only the unit tests
test:features: Run only the features tests
coverage: Run only the unit tests and generate code coverage for them, the output will be on coverage folder
lint: Lint the codebase
console: Open the built-in console, you can access the DI container through the container variable once it's open, the console is promise-friendly. Click here to know more about the built-in console
cleanup: Removes the files from the example application

Tech

Contributing