Express Typescript Boilerplate
A minimalistic boilerplate, with everything you need to start building services with Express and Typescript. It uses the following technologies:
- Node 4
- Express 4
- JWT Authentication with jsonwebtoken lib
- Gulp
- Typescript 1.8
- Typing for manage Typescript type definitions
- PM2
- Handlebar template
Getting started
You need to have NodeJS v4 installed on your machine, please refer to NodeJs.org.
Install tools and typescript defintion with
npm run tools
Install dependency
npm install
for development from the src folder src run
gulp watch
which will popolate the dist folder, and spin the server with PM2, for monitor, stop or delete the app
pm2 list
pm2 <stop|delete> <myapp | pid>
or you can use the gulp shortcut for stop the server
gulp serve-stop
for more commands how to control the server please refer to PM2 docs