Node.js Express API with TypeScript 3

Node.js Express API with TypeScript 3. Supports MongoDB

Description

This skeleton will help you to build your own Node.js Express Mongodb API using TypeScript 3.

Project Introduction

• suppot ES6/ES7 features
• using tslint followed Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide

Features

Authentication:

• jwt authentication

Session Storage:

• MongoDB

Integration testing

• mocha
• chai
• supertest

Requirements

• node >= 10
• npm >= 6
• mongodb >= 3.0
• typescript >= 3.0

Running the API

Development

To start the application in development mode, run:

npm install

Start the application in dev env:

npm run dev

Start the application in production env:

Install ts pm2 and typescript compiler:

npm install -g pm2
pm2 install typescript

example start with scale on 2 core:

pm2 start ./src/index.ts -i 2 --no-daemon

or

npm run build
pm2 start ./build/index.js

Express server listening on http://localhost:3000/, in development mode The developer mode will watch your changes then will transpile the TypeScript code and re-run the node application automatically.

Testing

To run integration tests:

npm test

Set up environment

In root folder you can find .env. You can use this config or change it for your purposes. If you want to add some new variables, you also need to add them to interface and config object (Look src/config/index.ts)

Swagger

npm install -g swagger-jsdoc
swagger-jsdoc -d swaggerDef.js -o swagger.json

Swagger documentation will be available on route:

http://localhost:3000/docs