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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