📦 Express + TypeScript Project Generator

A zero-config CLI tool to bootstrap an Express.js project with TypeScript in seconds — choose your favorite package manager: npm, yarn, pnpm, or bun.

🧑‍💻 Usage

You can run the CLI with npx:

npx @yash946/express-ts

✨ Features

• ⚙️ TypeScript pre-configured - Ready-to-use TypeScript setup
• 🚀 Express.js boilerplate - Complete setup with CORS and dotenv
• 📦 Multiple package managers - Support for npm, yarn, pnpm, and bun
• 🔄 Hot reloading - Automatic restart on file changes
• 🗂️ Clean project structure - Organized src/ and dist/ folders
• 🎯 Git integration - Automatic Git repository initialization
• ✨ Interactive CLI - Beautiful prompts with loading animations
• 🎨 Smart package management - Optimized for each package manager

📦 Package Manager Support

npm / yarn / pnpm

• Uses nodemon with tsx for hot reloading
• TypeScript compilation with tsc
• Full development environment setup

bun

• Uses Bun's native --watch flag (no nodemon needed)
• Built-in TypeScript support
• Optimized build process with bun build

🚀 Generated Scripts

For npm/yarn/pnpm projects:

npm run dev    # Start development server with hot reload
npm start      # Build and run production server

For bun projects:

bun run dev    # Start development server with Bun's native watcher
bun run build  # Build project for production
bun run start  # Run production build

📁 Project Structure

your-project/
├── dist/                 # Compiled JavaScript (after build)
├── src/
│   └── index.ts          # Main application file
├── .env                  # Environment variables
├── .gitignore           # Git ignore rules
├── tsconfig.json        # TypeScript configuration
├── nodemon.json         # Nodemon config (npm/yarn/pnpm only)
└── package.json         # Project dependencies and scripts

🔧 What Gets Installed

Dependencies

• express - Fast, unopinionated web framework
• cors - Cross-Origin Resource Sharing middleware
• dotenv - Environment variable management

Dev Dependencies

npm/yarn/pnpm:

• @types/express, @types/node, @types/cors - TypeScript definitions
• typescript - TypeScript compiler
• tsx - TypeScript execution engine
• nodemon - File watcher for development

bun:

• @types/express, @types/cors - TypeScript definitions
• Built-in TypeScript support (no additional packages needed)

🎯 Git Integration

The CLI automatically:

• Initializes a new Git repository
• Creates initial commit with all generated files
• Sets up proper .gitignore for Node.js projects

✨ CLI Experience

• 🎨 Beautiful interface with emojis and clear prompts
• ⏳ Loading animations during package installation
• ✅ Progress indicators for each setup step
• 🔇 Silent installation - no verbose logs cluttering output