🚀 Express TypeScript Boilerplate 2024

🌟 Introduction

Welcome to the Express TypeScript Boilerplate 2024 – a streamlined, efficient, and scalable foundation for building powerful backend services. This boilerplate merges modern tools and practices in Express.js and TypeScript, enhancing productivity, code quality, and performance.

💡 Motivation and Intentions

Developed to streamline backend development, this boilerplate is your solution for:

• ✨ Reducing setup time for new projects.
• 📊 Ensuring code consistency and quality.
• ⚡ Facilitating rapid development with cutting-edge tools.
• 🛡️ Encouraging best practices in security, testing, and performance.

🚀 Features

• 📁 Modular Structure: Organized by feature for easy navigation and scalability.
• 💨 Faster Execution with tsx: Rapid TypeScript execution with esbuild, complemented by tsc for type checking.
• 🌐 Stable Node Environment: Latest LTS Node version in .nvmrc.
• 🔧 Simplified Environment Variables with Envalid: Centralized and easy-to-manage configuration.
• 🔗 Path Aliases: Cleaner code with shortcut imports.
• 🔄 Dependabot Integration: Automatic updates for secure and up-to-date dependencies.
• 🔒 Security: Helmet for HTTP header security and CORS setup.
• 📊 Logging: Efficient logging with pino-http.
• 🧪 Comprehensive Testing: Robust setup with Vitest and Supertest.
• 🔑 Code Quality Assurance: Husky and lint-staged for consistent quality.
• ✅ Unified Code Style: ESLint and Prettier for a consistent coding standard.
• 📃 API Response Standardization: ServiceResponse class for consistent API responses.
• 🐳 Docker Support: Ready for containerization and deployment.
• 📝 Input Validation with Zod: Strongly typed request validation using Zod.
• 🧩 API Spec Generation: Automated OpenAPI specification generation from Zod schemas to ensure up-to-date and accurate API documentation.

🛠️ Getting Started

Step 1: 🚀 Initial Setup

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/edwinhern/express-typescript-2024.git
• Navigate: cd express-typescript-2024
• Install dependencies: npm ci

Step 2: ⚙️ Environment Configuration

• Create .env: Copy .env.template to .env
• Update .env: Fill in necessary environment variables

Step 3: 🏃‍♂️ Running the Project

• Development Mode: npm run dev
• Building: npm run build
• Production Mode: Set .env to NODE_ENV="production" then npm run build && npm run start

📁 Project Structure

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├── api
│   ├── healthCheck
│   │   ├── __tests__
│   │   │   └── healthCheckRouter.test.ts
│   │   └── healthCheckRouter.ts
│   └── user
│       ├── __tests__
│       │   ├── userRouter.test.ts
│       │   └── userService.test.ts
│       ├── userModel.ts
│       ├── userRepository.ts
│       ├── userRouter.ts
│       └── userService.ts
├── api-docs
│   ├── __tests__
│   │   └── openAPIRouter.test.ts
│   ├── openAPIDocumentGenerator.ts
│   ├── openAPIResponseBuilders.ts
│   └── openAPIRouter.ts
├── common
│   ├── __tests__
│   │   ├── errorHandler.test.ts
│   │   └── requestLogger.test.ts
│   ├── middleware
│   │   ├── errorHandler.ts
│   │   ├── rateLimiter.ts
│   │   └── requestLogger.ts
│   ├── models
│   │   └── serviceResponse.ts
│   └── utils
│       ├── commonValidation.ts
│       ├── envConfig.ts
│       └── httpHandlers.ts
├── index.ts
└── server.ts

🤝 Feedback and Contributions

We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions for further improvements. Feel free to contribute and join us in making backend development cleaner and faster!

🎉 Happy coding!