Express API Starter with Typescript

How to use this template:

npx create-express-api --typescript --directory my-api-name

Includes API Server utilities:

morgan
- HTTP request logger middleware for node.js
helmet
- Helmet helps you secure your Express apps by setting various HTTP headers. It's not a silver bullet, but it can help!
dotenv
- Dotenv is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env
cors
- CORS is a node.js package for providing a Connect/Express middleware that can be used to enable CORS with various options.

Development utilities:

typescript
- TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript.
ts-node
- TypeScript execution and REPL for node.js, with source map and native ESM support.
nodemon
- nodemon is a tool that helps develop node.js based applications by automatically restarting the node application when file changes in the directory are detected.
eslint
- ESLint is a tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code.
typescript-eslint
- Tooling which enables ESLint to support TypeScript.
jest
- Jest is a delightful JavaScript Testing Framework with a focus on simplicity.
supertest
- HTTP assertions made easy via superagent.

Setup

npm install

npm run lint

npm run test

npm run dev