generator-service

Yeoman generator for REST services using express or koa

Features

Choose between express and koa as application frameworks
Choose between mocha and jasmine as test frameworks
When using mocha, choose between expect.js, should.js and chai as assertion libraries
Enables CORS
Enables graceful server shutdown
Creates a health check endpoint (e.g. for use with registrator and/or consul)
Creates a Dockerfile based on the alpine-node image
Creates npm scripts for running, testing, building and live-reloading/testing of the application

NOTE: This service template is by default optimized for use with node.js 4.x but can be easily adapted to earlier versions.

To install yeoman from npm, run:

npm install -g yo

To install generator-service from npm, run:

npm install -g generator-service

Finally, initiate the generator:

yo service

MIT