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Minimalistic project template to jump start a Node.js back-end application in TypeScript. ESLint, Jest, Commander, Tsyringe, Winston and type definitions included.

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Node Typescript Boilerplate

TypeScript version Node.js version MIT Build Status - GitHub Actions

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Developer Ready: A comprehensive template. Works out of the box for most Node.js projects.

πŸƒπŸ½ Instant Value: All basic tools included and configured:

  • TypeScript 4.9
  • ESM
  • ESLint with some initial rules recommendation
  • Jest for fast unit testing and code coverage
  • Type definitions for Node.js and Jest
  • Prettier to enforce consistent code style
  • NPM scripts for common operations
  • EditorConfig for consistent coding style
  • Example configuration for GitHub Actions
  • Simple example of TypeScript code and unit test

🀲 Free as in speech: available under the MIT license.

Getting Started

This project is intended to be used with the latest Active LTS release of Node.js.

Use as a repository template

To start, just click the Use template link (or the green button). Start adding your code in the src and unit tests in the tests directories.

Clone repository

To clone the repository, use the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/yeganemehr/node-typescript-boilerplate
cd node-typescript-boilerplate
npm install

Download latest release

Download and unzip the current main branch or one of the tags:

wget https://github.com/yeganemehr/node-typescript-boilerplate/archive/master.zip -O node-typescript-boilerplate.zip
unzip node-typescript-boilerplate.zip && rm node-typescript-boilerplate.zip

Available Scripts

  • clean - remove coverage data, Jest cache and transpiled files,
  • prebuild - lint source files and tests before building,
  • build - transpile TypeScript to ES6,
  • build:watch - interactive watch mode to automatically transpile source files,
  • lint - lint source files and tests,
  • prettier - reformat files,
  • test - run tests,
  • test:watch - interactive watch mode to automatically re-run tests

Additional Information

ES Modules

This template uses native ESM. Make sure to read this, and this first.

If your project requires CommonJS, you will have to convert to ESM.

Please do not open issues for questions regarding CommonJS or ESM on this repo.

License

Licensed under the MIT. See the LICENSE file for details.

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