Backend Setup CLI

Quick install:

Using npx (recommended)

npx @muhammad_faisal/create-backend-app my-app

Or install globally

npm install -g @muhammad_faisal/create-backend-app create-backend-app my-app

A custom CLI tool to scaffold a backend project with Express.js and MongoDB in seconds. It creates a clean, production-ready structure with preconfigured dependencies so you can start coding immediately.

📦 Features

⚡ Instant setup – generates a ready-to-use backend boilerplate

🗂️ Standard project structure – routes, controllers, models, utils, db, middleware, config

🌍 MongoDB integration – with Mongoose ORM

🔑 Environment-based configuration – .env support included

🛡️ Error handling middleware – prebuilt ApiError and errorHandler

🧪 Nodemon for development hot reload

✅ Optional authentication module (JWT-based)

🛠️ Installation

Start development server

{npm run dev}

my-app/
│── node_modules/
│── public/
│   └── temp/
│   ├── .gitkeep
│
│── src/
│   ├── controllers/          # Controllers (business logic)
│   ├── db/                   # Database connection
│   │   └── DBconnection.js
│   ├── middleware/           # Custom middlewares
│   ├── models/               # Mongoose models
│   ├── routes/               # Express routes
│   ├── utills/               # Utility functions
│   ├── app.js                # Express app setup
│   ├── constant.js           # Constants
│   └── index.js              # Entry point
│
│── .env                      # Environment variables
│── .gitignore
│── .prettierignore
│── .prettierrc
│── package.json
│── package-lock.json
│── README.md

⚙️ Scripts

Start development with nodemon

npm run dev

Start production

npm start

🔑 Environment Variables

Created a .env file in the project root:

/t6>create-backend test4
? 📦 Port number: 8365
? 🛢️ MongoDB Connection URI:  mongodb://localhost:27017/test4
? 🌐 CORS Origin: *
? 🔐 Access Token Secret: 15asdasdfd
? ⏳ Access Token Expiry: 1s6sd6fsd
? 🔄 Refresh Token Secret: sdfsdf54s6d54ssfger
? ⏳ Refresh Token Expiry: fdfged6r4
? ☁️ Cloudinary Cloud Name: 
? 🔑 Cloudinary API Key: s
? 🔐 Cloudinary API Secret: sdf
? 🌐 Cloudinary URL: ewef555c5wse56wf321cSDfef
📁 Creating project structure...
📦 Initializing project...


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found 0 vulnerabilities 
✅ Project setup complete!
👉 cd test4 && npm start

🔮 Roadmap

Add PostgreSQL option

Add GraphQL support

Add Docker support

Plugin system for extending CLI

🤝 Contributing

PRs and feature suggestions are welcome!

📜 License

MIT License © 2025## License This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

See contributing.md for ways to get started.

Please adhere to this project's code of conduct.

Feedback

If you have any feedback, please reach out to us at [email protected]