🚀 create-backend-node-app

A powerful and customizable CLI tool to scaffold full-stack Node.js or TypeScript backend applications — instantly!

📦 Features

• 🔧 Project scaffolding with customizable templates
• 🛠️ Supports JavaScript & TypeScript
• 🌱 Initializes npm, installs dependencies, and sets up project structure
• 💬 Interactive CLI prompts via @inquirer/prompts
• 📁 Generates folder/file structure based on best practices
• 🧪 Future support for adding testing, database, and GitHub integration

🖥️ Templates Available

• REST API (JavaScript)
  Sets up an Express.js API with dotenv and body-parser.

• TypeScript API
  Adds full TypeScript setup including types and ts-node-dev.

🚀 Installation (Local Development)

git clone https://github.com/harsh623/create-node-app.git cd create-node-app npm install To make it globally accessible:

npm link 🧑‍💻 Usage

Basic usage

create-backend-node-app

With project name

create-backend-node-app my-app

With template option

create-backend-node-app my-app --template typescript

Or shortcut

create-backend-node-app my-app -t rest-api If no name or template is provided, it will prompt interactively.

🧱 Tech Stack Node.js

Commander.js

@inquirer/prompts

fs/promises

child_process (for shell commands)

chalk

TypeScript (for template)

Express.js, dotenv, body-parser

💡 Future Improvements 🌐 Add GitHub repo creation and initial commit via GitHub API

🧪 Support for testing tools like Jest or Supertest

📚 Template for Full-Stack (MERN/MEVN) apps

📦 Add Dockerfile and Docker Compose options

🧩 Plugin system for middleware, DB integrations, etc.

🎨 Template customization via JSON config or UI

🤝 Contributing Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.