Express TypeScript boilerplate

This project is a starting point for creating an express application using typescript and sane defaults.

Overview

• Express v5
• async/await support
• TypeScript
• dotenv configs
• security middleware via helmet and CORS
• commonly used middlewares
• cluster setup
• graceful shutdown by http-terminator
• unhandledRejection handler by make-promises-safe
• Pino logging
• basic rate limiting
• eslint
• prettier

Get Started

• make a .env file with variables (eg. PORT=3000)
• update the prisma schema to connect to the database
• npm run migrate (needs a DATABASE_URL setting in .env)
• npm run dbseed

Copyright © 2020 Adrian Cruz

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.