Boilerplate code for a Node.js API powered by Express.js

Lightweight starter code for building a Node.js API powered by Typescript and Express. Includes a few dev dependencies to facilitate development.

Built with:

• Typescript
• Node.js
• Express

Development dependencies:

• Eslint
• Prettier
• ts-node (JIT compilation, i.e. no need to prebuild TS -> JS)
• Nodemon (hot-reloading)

1. Clone the repository
2. Run the following command to create a .env-file based on the sample contained in the repo:
   cp .sample.env .env
3. Run 1 of the following 3 commands in the root folder of the repo:
   • npm run start (pre-compiles the TS -> JS)
   • npm run dev (utilizes ts-node for JIT compilation)
   • npm run dev-watch (utilizes ts-node for JIT compilation and Nodemon for hot-reloading)
4. Open http://localhost:1337/ in your browser