Express Boilerplate

A boilerplate/starter project for quickly building RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express with some pre-built features.

Features

Logging: using morgan
Environment variables: using dotenv
Security: set security HTTP headers using helmet
Santizing: sanitize request data against xss and query injection using xss-clean
CORS: Cross-Origin Resource-Sharing enabled using cors
Compression: gzip compression with compression
Git hooks: with husky and lint-staged
Linting: with eslint and prettier

Get Started

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/irfnd/express-boilerplate

Rename this boilerplate to whatever you want and move to that folder
```
cd <your-project-name>
```
Delete .git folder

Reinitialize your git

git init .
git add .
git commit -m "Your initialize commit"

Install all packages
```
npm install
```
or
```
yarn
```
Project ready.
You can push/publish to your own github by changing some configuration in package.json based on the configuration you want.

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

Fork the Project
Create your Feature Branch git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature
Commit your Changes git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature
Push to the Branch git push origin feature/AmazingFeature
Open a Pull Request

License

Distributed under the MIT License.