🚀 Boilerplate Express Prisma TS

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🌟 Introduction

Welcome to Boilerplate Express Prisma TS – a powerful, efficient, and scalable foundation for building backend services using Express.js and TypeScript, following modern best practices and technologies. 🚀

💡 Motivation

This boilerplate aims to:

• ✨ Reduce setup time for new projects
• 📊 Ensure code consistency and quality
• ⚡ Facilitate rapid development
• 🛡️ Encourage best practices in security, and performance

🧰 Tech Stack

• Node.js (LTS)
• Express.js
• TypeScript
• Prisma ORM
• Mysql (or your DB of choice)
• Zod for schema validation
• Winston for logging
• Helmet & CORS for security

🚀 Features

• 📁 Modular Structure: Organized by feature for easy navigation and scalability
• 💨 Faster Execution with tsx: Rapid TypeScript execution with tsx and type checking with tsc
• 🌐 Stable Node Environment: Latest LTS Node version in .nvmrc
• 🔧 Simplified Environment Variables: Managed with Envalid
• 🔗 Path Aliases: Cleaner code with shortcut imports
• 🔄 Renovate Integration: Automatic updates for dependencies
• 🔒 Security: Helmet for HTTP header security and CORS setup
• 📊 Logging: Efficient logging with winston
• 📝 Input Validation with Zod: Strongly typed request validation using Zod

🛠️ Getting Started

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: 🚀 Initial Setup

• Create a New Project Folder

mkdir my-new-api
cd my-new-api

• Run Command:

npx boilerplate-express-prisma-ts

OR

git clone https://github.com/michaeldavidvinc1/boilerplate-node-express-prisma.git

Step 2: ⚙️ Environment Configuration

• Create .env: Copy .env.example to .env
• Update .env: Fill in necessary environment variables

Step 3: 🏃‍♂️ Running the Project

• Development Mode: npm run dev
• Building: npm run build
• Production Mode: Set .env to NODE_ENV="production" then npm run build && npm run start

🤝 Feedback and Contributions

We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions for further improvements. Feel free to contribute and join us in making backend development cleaner and faster!

🎉 Happy coding!