cembdc/nodejs-restapi

⌛️ Boilerplate for API backends with Node.js and Express.

Nodejs-Restapi-Boilerplate

A Boilerplate/Starter Project for building RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose.

Directory structure

Overview

Project src structure directories.

src/
├─ config/
│  ├─ config.js
├─ controller.js
│  ├─ controller.index.js
│  ├─ userController.js
├─ loader/
│  ├─ express.js
│  ├─ mongoose.js
│  ├─ server.js
├─ middlewares/
│  ├─ middlewares.index.js
│  ├─ validator.js
├─ routes/
│  ├─ routes.index.js
│  ├─ routes.js
│  ├─ userRoute.js
├─ utils/
│  ├─ requestUtil.js
│  ├─ utils.index.js
test/
├─ example.test.js
├─ userController.test.js
└─

Features

• ES9: latest ECMAScript features
• NoSQL database: MongoDB object data modeling using Mongoose
• Authentication and authorization: using jsonwebtoken
• Validation: request data validation using Joi
• Logging: //TODO: winston
• Testing: unit and integration tests using Mocha Chai
• Error handling: centralized error handling mechanism
• API documentation: //TODO: swagger
• Dependency management: with Npm
• Environment variables: using dotenv
• Security: set security HTTP headers using helmet
• Santizing: sanitize request data against xss and query injection
• CORS: Cross-Origin Resource-Sharing enabled using cors
• Compression: //TODO: gzip compression with compression
• CI: continuous integration with Travis CI
• Docker support
• Code coverage: using coveralls
• Code quality: with Codacy
• Git hooks: with husky
• Linting: with ESLint and Prettier
• Editor config: consistent editor configuration using EditorConfig

Getting Started

Installation

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/CemBdc/nodejs-restapi.git
cd nodejs-restapi

Install the dependencies:

npm install

Set the environment variables:

cp .env.example .env

# open .env and modify the environment variables (if needed)

Commands

Running locally:

npm run start

Lint

# lint code with ESLint
npm run lint

Test

# run all tests with Mocha
npm run test

# run test coverage
npm run test:coverage

Contributing

Contributions are more than welcome! Please check out the contributing guide.

Inspirations

• danielfsousa/express-rest-es2017-boilerplate
• madhums/node-express-mongoose
• kunalkapadia/express-mongoose-es6-rest-api

License

MIT