This repo contains a template/baseline to build an API service using Express
More details to follow but if you fork this, install gulp and run gulp in the command line, it should get you up and running with a basic API service.
chetanyakan/express-api-service-template
This provides a template/baseline for building an express-based api application. This based on this tutorial: https://brianflove.com/2016/11/08/typescript-2-express-node/
TypeScript