NSGen
A project structure generator for your NodeJS backend, based on your configurations and common best-practices
Check out the full documentation
You create a simple configuration file, NSGen takes care of creating an entire project based on express in NodeJS. Among other features, there are the following:
- Creation of Data Models that define the structure of your database
- Automatic generation of routes and APIs you need
- Creation of the main services for your Data Model
You're off to a better start
An example can be more explanatory than a thousand words (or was it a picture...?). Below you can see the file from which you can start:
config:
name: my-application
description: Backend for my-application
db:
name: testdb
username: john
password: s3cr3t
type: mysql
model:
user:
username:
type: string
null: false
password:
type: string
article:
title: string
description:
type: text
published:
type: date
api:
users:
crud: true
model: user
articles:
model: article
get:
post:
put:
...and that's it! Build directly with
$ nsgen --config config.yaml
and this will be the resulting structure of your project:
└── 📁 my-application
├── 📁 api
│ ├── 🗒 index.ts
│ ├── 🗒 post.ts
│ └── 🗒 users.ts
├── 📁 config
│ └── 🗒 index.ts
├── 📁 models
│ ├── 🗒 article.ts
│ └── 🗒 user.ts
├── 🗒 index.ts
├── 🗒 .env
├── 🗒 .gitignore
├── 🗒 package.json
├── 🗒 README.md
├── 🗒 sequelize.ts
└── 🗒 tsconfig.json
Install all the required dependencies and compile:
$ yarn
$ tsc
$ npm install
$ tsc
That's right. You don't have to do anything else, just start your new server.
$ node dist/index.js