manjit683/ts-fullstack-starter

Base structure to start any web app at light speed ⚡ Powered by TypeScript, Node.js, and React 🚀

⭐ Motivation

Well, I don't you about you, but for me, when I have an idea, I don't want my time, energy, and motivation to be eaten by some boilerplate hassle or tedious configuration, which can very quickly become very tiresome 🥱

What I want, at least at first, is to move fast and take the shortest path to make my idea real and alive 🚀

Here comes TS Fullstack Starter 🎉

Now you have the base structure to start the development of your next fullstack web application at light speed ⚡

Check out the demo! Note: You can log in by submitting test as username and password.

📅 Update (December 2021)

Software crafting is a never-ending challenge, with always more modern ways to do things, especially in the fast-paced JavaScript environment. In December 2021, considering what I’ve learned since the beginning of this project, there are things I would do differently:

• I would use Apollo GraphQL combined with TypeGraphQL, or at least RTK Query, for productivity reasons.
• I would use PostgreSQL combined with TypeORM, for performance reasons.
• I would use Redis to handle session-based authentication, for security reasons.
• And many other things, but I try not to be too hard with myself 😄

Anyway, for a starter project, good enough is good enough, and done is better than perfect ✅

✨ Features

• Types everywhere with TypeScript, on both backend (Express) and frontend (React 17 and Redux Toolkit)
• Tests everywhere with Jest, on both backend and frontend (React Testing Library)
• NoSQL database with MondoDB
• Authentication with JSON Web Token
• Routing with React Router
• Form with React Hook Form
• Internationalization with react-i18next
• Logging with Winston
• Light/dark theme with Material-UI
• Pre-commit hook with Husky

🏭 Architecture

🧱 Backend

src
├── __tests__
├── components
│   ├── auth
│   ├── logs
│   └── users
├── config
├── loaders
│   ├── api
│   ├── database
│   ├── errorHandler
│   ├── middlewares
│   ├── server
│   └── app.ts
├── types
├── utils
└── index.ts

🧱 Frontend

client
├── src
│   ├── __tests__
│   ├── app
│   │   ├── App.tsx
│   │   ├── store.ts
│   │   └── theme.ts
│   ├── components
│   │   ├── styled
│   │   │   └── StyledLink.tsx
│   │   ├── ErrorFallback.tsx
│   │   ├── Page.tsx
│   │   ├── PageFallback.tsx
│   │   ├── ProcessButton.tsx
│   │   ├── Spinner.tsx
│   │   └── TopBar.tsx
│   ├── features
│   │   ├── auth
│   │   ├── home
│   │   └── user
│   ├── types
│   └── utils
│       └── test-utils.tsx
├── i18n.ts
└── index.tsx

🏃 Getting Started

🔧 How to Fork

• Import code directly on GitHub.
• Delete .git folder.
• Delete .git folder in client folder.
• $ git init
• Change git remote.
• Update package.json.
• Update README.md.
• On MongoDB Atlas, create a new project.
• In this new project, create a new user.
• In this new project, create a database (main), and a collection (users).
• Create a .env file.
• In .env file, fill AUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET property.
• In .env file, fill DATABASE_URI property, with user password, and database.
• $ git checkout -b main
• $ git add .
• $ git commit -m "Initial commit"
• $ git push -u origin main

⚠️ Warnings

client > package.json

• Add INLINE_RUNTIME_CHUNK=false before script react-scripts build.
• Write set INLINE_RUNTIME_CHUNK=false&&react-scripts build for Windows.
• Set proxy value (port should match default value in src > config > index.ts).

src > tests

• Global environment variables are defined in src > utils > test-utils.ts.
• You may need to add jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL = 600000 to be able to download MongoDB binaries.

src > config > index.ts

• Server port should be read from the variable name PORT in process.env.PORT.
• Server port default value should match port value in client > package.json > proxy.

src > loaders > errorHandlers.ts

• Avoid JSON.stringify() error.
• Keep _next in the method catching Express middleware errors.

package.json

• Avoid naming a script install.

📄 License

This project is MIT licensed.