AutoApp

AutoApp is a MERN app scaffolding generator.

Huh?

It makes new MERN apps.

Neat!

Right? Just feed it some assets and watch it go...

Features

• Complete MERN setup
• REST API back-end
  • Server on :9000
  • Client on :3000
• Mongoose
• React Router

Make it so!

Clone

Clone the repo into your empty project directory. Don't forget the trailing dot!

$ git clone http://github.com/jasmyn/AutoApp.git .

Configure

Edit the config object at the top of aa.js.

config key	description
name	The site/app name.
yarn	True installs dependencies with yarn. False uses npm.
dbNounSingular	The thing you're using the db to store.
dbNounPlural	The plural of the thing you're using the db to store.
dbSchema	The db field names, types and if they're required.
title	Set this to the schema field you wish to use as the title

Then replace the contents of assets/ with your favicon.ico logo192.png logo512.png

The config.title field will be used as the records' title, meaning it will appear in the GET performed at noun/ and in the Create and Delete select boxes. This is only used for the front-end and doesn't affect the API.

Create

$ npm install or $ yarn install

The next step can take several minutes as AutoApp installs both client and server dependencies. It's noticably faster with yarn. If using yarn, set config.yarn to true to prevent lock file conflicts.

$ node aa

Commands

Make sure Mongo is running locally, then...

$ npm run dev (development)

$ npm run debug (debug)

$ npm start (production)

Your app is live on localhost:3000

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REST API

The app is backed by a REST API, served by default at localhost:9000.

• GET /noun gets all db records
• GET /noun/id gets details of db record with that id
• POST /noun creates a new record
• PUT /noun/id updates the record with that id
• DELETE /noun/id deletes that record

(noun is config.dbNounSingular)

Have fun!