create-node-app-ts

Node, Express, TypeScript & MongoDB + Authentication application Boilerplate 🚀

Environment Setup

Install typescript

npm init
npm i -D typescript
npm i -D ts-node

For running project use nodemon

npm i -D nodemon

Configure typescript

create a new file tsconfig.json in root directory

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "module": "NodeNext",
        "moduleResolution": "Node",
        "baseUrl": "src",
        "outDir": "dist",
        "sourceMap": true,
        "noImplicitAny": true,
    },
    "include": ["src/**/*"],
}

Setup nodemon

create a new file nodemon.json in root directory

{
    "watch": ["src"],
    "ext": ".ts, .js",
    "exec": "ts-node ./src/index.ts"
}

Setup Express server

npm i express body-parser cookie-parser compression cors

npm i -D @types/express @types/body-parser @types/cookie-parser @types/compression @types/cors

"dependencies": { "body-parser": "^1.20.2", "compression": "^1.7.4", "cookie-parser": "^1.4.6", "cors": "^2.8.5", "dotenv": "^16.3.1", "express": "^4.18.2", "express-session": "^1.17.3", "mongoose": "^8.0.1" }, "devDependencies": { "@types/body-parser": "^1.19.5", "@types/compression": "^1.7.5", "@types/cookie-parser": "^1.4.6", "@types/cors": "^2.8.17", "@types/express": "^4.17.21", "nodemon": "^3.0.1", "prettier": "^3.1.0", "ts-node": "^10.9.1", "typescript": "^5.3.2" }