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Express ES2017 REST API Boilerplate

Boilerplate/Generator/Starter Project for building RESTful APIs and microservices using Node.js, Express and MongoDB

Features

No transpilers, just vanilla javascript
ES2017 latest features like Async/Await
CORS enabled
Uses yarn
Express + MongoDB (Mongoose)
Consistent coding styles with editorconfig
Docker support
Uses helmet to set some HTTP headers for security
Load environment variables from .env files with dotenv
Request validation with joi
Gzip compression with compression
Linting with eslint
Tests with mocha, chai and sinon
Code coverage with istanbul and coveralls
Git hooks with husky
Logging with morgan
Authentication and Authorization with passport
API documentation generation with apidoc
Continuous integration support with travisCI
Monitoring with pm2

Requirements

Node v7.6+ or Docker
Yarn

Getting Started

Clone the repo and make it yours:

git clone --depth 1 https://git.sentientgeeks.us/krish/sg-node-express-rest-api.git
cd sg-node-express-rest-api
rm -rf .git

Install dependencies:

yarn

Set environment variables:

cp .env.example .env

Running Locally

yarn dev

Running in Production

yarn start

Lint

# lint code with ESLint
yarn lint

# try to fix ESLint errors
yarn lint:fix

# lint and watch for changes
yarn lint:watch

Test

# run all tests with Mocha
yarn test

# run unit tests
yarn test:unit

# run integration tests
yarn test:integration

# run all tests and watch for changes
yarn test:watch

# open nyc test coverage reports
yarn coverage

Validate

# run lint and tests
yarn validate

Logs

# show logs in production
pm2 logs

Documentation

# generate and open api documentation
yarn docs

Docker

# run container locally
yarn docker:dev

# run container in production
yarn docker:prod

# run tests
yarn docker:test

Deploy

Set your server ip:

DEPLOY_SERVER=127.0.0.1

Replace my Docker username with yours:

nano deploy.sh

Run deploy script:

yarn deploy