devotox/nodejs-starter

Node JS Starter

Frameworks to use

• Express
• Koa
• Fastify

Node

• Volta
• NPM

Getting Started

curl https://get.volta.sh | bash

volta install node
volta install yarn

git init
yarn init

yarn add fastify --exact
yarn add nodemon --exact --dev

Installing

• yarn install

Running

• node server.js
• npx nodemon server.js

Files

• server.js
  • This is the entry to the code that starts the server
• package.json
  • This file stores the information about this package and its dependencies
• .gitignore
  • This file is needed to ensure certain files do not get sent to github
  • i.e. the node_modules as they are very large and you can recreate them locally by running yarn install
• renovate.json
  • This file is used by a github app that automates updating packages