TEN Stack: Typescript-Express-Node template (Updated 2022)

Overview

TEN stack is a Typescript + Express + Node starter kit to develop REST API server app.
Nothing new under the sun, just a straight forward combo to make server development a little bit faster. This template is perfect for anyone who is starting on the server-side world based on Node.js

This template comes with:

• Class-based OOP architecture with DI & DAO (scalable)
• Equipped for TDD with Jest
• Everything strictly typed with Typescript
• ES6 features/modules
• ES7 async / await
• Global error handling architecture with templates (ApiError, TimeOutError, ValidationError, etc)
• Request validation as custom middleware with Express-validator
• Blazing fast logging with Express-Pinno-Logger
• Run with Nodemon for automatic reload & watch
• ESLint for code linting
• Code formatting using Prettier
• Configuration management using dotenv
• Improved commits with Husky(v8) - pre-commit & pre-push
• Manage production app process with PM2
• CI/CD workflows with Github Actions
• Editable Github Pull requests & Issue templates

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Prerequisites

• Node.js (>= 16.x)
• Yarn or NPM

Install

• Fork or Use this template repository.
• Clone the forked repository.
• Install the dependencies with yarn or npm.

Make sure you already have node.js and npm or yarn installed in your system.

• Set your git remote add origin path

 git remote add origin ${forked-and-cloned-path}

Update the url if you already have an origin

Config

• Copy .env.example a file at the root of the application.
• Add or modify specific variables and update it according to your need.

 cp .env.example .env

Check the config folder to customize your settings (/src/config)

Alias @

To make paths clean and ease to access @ is setup up for /src path

// BEFORE
import config from './config';
import routes from './routes';

// NOW
import config from '@/config';
import routes from '@/routes';

You can customize this setup:
/tsconfig.json > compilerOptions.baseUrl & compilerOptions.paths

Local Development

Run the server locally. It will be run with Nodemon and ready to serve on port 8080 (unless you specify it on your .env)

 yarn start # or npm start

Check package.json to see more "scripts"

Continuous Integration & Continuous Deploy (CI/CD)

The workflows are under the .github folder
CI will be triggered on every PR update
CD will be triggered when specified branches got pushed (ex. main , develop)

If need more info about the setting, check this article

Production

First, build the application.

 yarn build # or npm run build

Then, use pm2 to start the application as a service.

 yarn service:start # or npm run service:start

Contribution

Check the source here
Please feel free to open an issue or a pull request to suggest changes or additions.