baxjs

baxjs is a lightweight Node.js backend starter toolkit that bundles essential packages for building APIs and servers. It aims to save developers time by including preconfigured utilities commonly used in backend development.

Features

• 🚀 Express – Fast and flexible web framework for Node.js
• 🔑 JWT (jsonwebtoken) – Secure authentication handling
• 🌐 CORS – Cross-Origin Resource Sharing support
• 🍪 Cookie-Parser – Parse and manage cookies easily
• 📦 Axios – Make HTTP requests with ease
• 📝 Morgan – HTTP request logger middleware
• ⚙️ Dotenv – Load environment variables from .env
• 📋 Dependency overview – View all installed dependencies with their versions

Installation

npm install baxjs

After installation, baxjs will automatically run a postinstall script to display all bundled dependencies with their versions.

Usage

Here’s a minimal example to get started:

// Import everything you need from baxjs
const {
  express,
  cors,
  morgan,
  cookieParser,
  dotenv,
  axios,
  jwt
} = require('baxjs');

// Initialize dotenv
dotenv.config();

const app = express();

// Middleware
app.use(cors());
app.use(express.json());
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(morgan('dev'));

// Routes
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.json({ message: 'Hello from baxjs starter backend!' });
});

// Example protected route with JWT
app.get('/protected', (req, res) => {
  const token = req.headers['authorization'];
  if (!token) return res.status(403).json({ error: 'No token provided' });

  jwt.verify(token, process.env.JWT_SECRET, (err, decoded) => {
    if (err) return res.status(401).json({ error: 'Unauthorized' });
    res.json({ message: 'Access granted', user: decoded });
  });
});

// Server
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 5000;
app.listen(PORT, () => {
  console.log(`🚀 Server running on port ${PORT}`);
});

Scripts

• postinstall – Runs automatically after installation to display installed dependencies.

Dependencies

• axios
• cookie-parser
• cors
• dotenv
• express
• jsonwebtoken
• morgan

Why baxjs?

Instead of setting up a Node.js backend from scratch every time, baxjs gives you a boilerplate toolkit with the most commonly used packages pre-installed and ready to go.

Author

👨‍💻 Bichitra Behera

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.