new-express-app

NPM package to create new pre-configured express app for REST API's from the command line. Download

🎉 What's new?

V 1.3.0

(July 16, 2020) Now, you can choose a package manager npm or yar. 💖

V 1.2.0

(July 15, 2020) Now, you can choose between JavaScript with EsLint setup and TypeScript with TsLint setup. 🎉🎆

📥 Installation

install the package globally with this command.

npm i -g new-express-app

⚙️ Usage

Run this command where you want to create the new app.

npx new-express-app

then answer the following Questions to configure your project:

? Enter Project Name:
? Enter version:
? Enter description:
? Enter author name:
? what language you want to use? # JavaScript or TypeScript 
? choose a package Manager: # npm or yarn 
? Want to initialise git?
? Want to install dotEnv?
? Want to install database driver? # MongoDB, Mongoose or None 
? Want to initialise EsLint/Prettier? # if you chose JavaScript 
? Want to initialise TsLint/Prettier? # if you chose TypeScript 

🛠 Installed dependencies

Default Dependencies with JavaScript Setup

• Express
• cors

Default Dependencies with TypeScript Setup

• Express
• cors
• typescript
• ts-node

Optinal Dependencies

• dotenv
• mongoDB
• assert
• mongoose

Default devDependencies with JavaScript Setup

• nodemon

Default devDependencies with TypeScript Setup

• nodemon
• @types/node
• @types/express
• @types/cors

Optinal devDependencies

• EsLint / TsLint
• prettier
• required devDependencies for the past two devDependencies.
• @types/mongoose
• @types/mongodb
• @types/assert

📁 Folder structure

JavaScript Setup

.
├── .env
├── .eslintrc.json
├── .gitignore
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── prettier.config.js
└── src
    ├── controllers
    │   └── controller.js
    ├── index.js
    ├── models
    └── routes
        └── router.js
 
4 directories, 9 files

TypeScript Setup

.
├── .env
├── .gitignore
├── .prettierrc.json
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── src
│   ├── controllers
│   │   └── controller.ts
│   ├── index.ts
│   ├── models
│   └── routes
│       └── router.ts
├── tsconfig.json
└── tslint.json
 
4 directories, 10 files

📄 Files Content

index.js

const express = require('express');
const cors = require('cors');
 
const router = require('./routes/router');
 
const app = express();
 
app.use(express.urlencoded());
app.use(express.json());
 
app.use(cors({ origin: true, credentials: true }));
 
app.use('/', router);
 
app.listen(8080, () => {
  console.log('Server Running');
});

router.js

const express = require('express');
const Controller = require('../controllers/controller');
 
const router = express.Router();
 
router.use('/', Controller.helloWorld);
 
module.exports = router;

controller.js

exports.helloWorld = (req, res, next) => {
  res.send('<h1>Hello World!</h1>');
};

.eslintrc.json

{
  "env": {
    "node": true,
    "commonjs": true,
    "es2020": true
  },
  "extends": ["plugin:prettier/recommended", "airbnb-base"],
  "parserOptions": {
    "ecmaVersion": 11
  },
  "rules": {
    "prettier/prettier": "error"
  },
  "plugins": ["prettier"]
}

prettier.config.js

module.exports = {
  tabWidth: 2,
  semi: true,
  singleQuote: true,
  trailingComma: 'es5',
};

🦾 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

⚖ License

Copyright 2020 Mahmoud .A Mahmoud. Licensed under the MIT License