create-express

CLI tool to scaffold production-ready Express.js backend projects with best practices built in.

Usage

npx create-express my-app

Features

• TypeScript or JavaScript — choose your preferred language
• ES Modules or CommonJS — pick your module format
• Database support — MongoDB (Mongoose), PostgreSQL, MySQL (Prisma), SQLite
• Authentication — JWT, Session, OAuth2 (Google, GitHub)
• Docker — optional Dockerfile and docker-compose setup
• Production-ready — rate limiting, error handling, logging, CORS, Helmet

Options

create-express [project-name] [options]

Options:
  -V, --version         output the version number
  -y, --yes             Skip prompts and use defaults
  --ts, --typescript    Use TypeScript
  --js, --javascript    Use JavaScript
  --db <database>       Database (mongodb|postgresql|mysql|sqlite|none)
  --auth <auth>         Authentication (jwt|session|oauth2|none)
  --docker              Include Docker support
  -h, --help            display help for command

Examples

# Interactive mode
npx create-express my-api

# TypeScript with MongoDB and JWT
npx create-express my-api --ts --db mongodb --auth jwt

# Skip all prompts with defaults
npx create-express my-api -y

Generated Project Structure

my-api/
├── src/
│   ├── config/
│   ├── errors/
│   ├── middleware/
│   ├── models/
│   ├── routes/
│   ├── utils/
│   ├── app.js
│   └── server.js
├── .env.example
├── .gitignore
├── package.json
└── README.md

Scripts

| Script | Description | |--------|-------------| | npm run dev | Start with hot reload (nodemon) | | npm start | Start production server | | npm run lint | Run ESLint | | npm test | Run tests |

License

MIT