Node REM

NodeJS Rest Express MongoDB (REM) - a production-ready lightweight backend setup.

Live Demo (login with a test user: user1@example.com, user111 - inspect API calls to learn more)

🌟 It rains ~~cats and dogs~~ features:

  Typescript      Express   CORS     Helmet    DotEnv   joi (validation)   forever
  Mongoose        Passport  JWT      Await
  Tslint          Apidoc    Docker   Husky    Morgan    Travis   Unix/Mac/Win (Powershell)
  Tests
            Mocha  Chai     Sinon    istanbul
  MORE:
            HTTPS           HTTP2 (spdy)      Socketio 2.1       Init DB Data
            Slack message   Nodemailer        Mailgun            Email Templates    Forgot Password
            VSCode Debug    Dependabot        Codacy             File upload (multer)
      API
            API response    (data, meta: limit, offset, sort)    Transform res
            apiJson         Pagination query
            Regex query     Whitelist fields in response         Populate deep fields
            mstime          API response time     Stack trace in Response
      UI Example
            CRA, Typescript, React-router, Axios, PostCSS, Tailwind. Components: Login, Home, ItemView.
            Portable-react

More details in Documentation / Features

📦 Installation

Require: MongoDB and NodeJS v8.12.0 +

Clone this project:

git clone https://github.com/ngduc/node-rem.git your-app
cd your-app
rm -rf .git   (remove this github repo's git settings)
yarn

Update package.json and .env file with your information.
Run yarn dev, it will create a new Mongo DB "node-rem"
Verify yarn test can run all unit tests.
Verify: use Postman to POST http://localhost:3009/api/v1/auth/register to create a new user. (set payload to have email, password)

curl -k -d '{"email": "example1@email.com", "password": "testpsw"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:3009/api/v1/auth/register

🔧 Commands

- Start MongoDB first. Verify .env variables.

yarn dev      launch DEV mode
yarn start    launch PROD mode
yarn stop

yarn test     Run tests   (requires MongoDB)

Frontend Example - uses this node-rem backend:

- First, start the Backend with: yarn dev

- Then, start UI:
cd ./ui
yarn
yarn start    (then open http://localhost:3000 - login with a test user: user1@example.com, user111)

📖 Features

Your simple API Route Handler will have a nice syntax like this: (packed with ~~vitamins~~ cool stuffs)

exports.list = async (req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) => {
  try {
    const data = (await User.list(req)).transform(req); // query & run userSchema.transform() for response
    apiJson({ req, res, data, model: User }); // return standard API Response
  } catch (e) {
    next(e);
  }
};

API Response is similar to JSON API standard:

GET http://localhost:3009/api/v1/users?fields=id,email&email=*user1* (get id & email only in response)
GET http://localhost:3009/api/v1/users?page=1&perPage=20 (query & pagination)
GET http://localhost:3009/api/v1/users?limit=5&offset=0&sort=email:desc,createdAt
{
    "meta": {
        "limit": 5,
        "offset": 0,
        "sort": {
            "email": -1,
            "createdAt": 1
        },
        "totalCount": 4,
        "timer": 3.85,
        "timerAvg": 5.62
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "5bad07cdc099dfbe49ef69d7",
            "name": "John Doe",
            "email": "john.doe@gmail.com",
            "role": "user",
            "createdAt": "2018-09-27T16:39:41.498Z"
        },
        // more items...
    ]
}

Example of generated API Docs (using apidoc) - https://node-rem.netlify.com

📖 Documentation

🙌 Thanks

All contributions are welcome!

UI Example uses Portable-react