express-typescript-template

Personal NodeJS template for express webapis.

Features

• Fully written in TypeScript
• Full typings everywhere
• Sensible tsconfig.json
• Error handling
• JSON Logging (pino) with pretty print during dev
• Docker support (both Yarn and NPM)
• Express routing
• Controllers/Services/Routes structure
• Development HotReload (ts-node-dev)
• Unit testing (jest with *.spec.ts files)
• Volta support
• Automatic files formatting on-commit with sensible defaults (prettier/pretty-quick/husky)
• Express common middlewares included (morgan, etc)
• Basic auth guard system
• Postgres-ready (no ORMs)
• Redis-ready
• SIGTERM, SIGINT intercept for cleaner and faster shutdowns
• HTTP validation (express-validator)
• EditorConfig support
• Very fast and optimized build with esbuild