create-express-gen

A simple, interactive CLI tool to generate a production-ready Express.js boilerplate with support for JavaScript or TypeScript and popular ORMs like Mongoose, Prisma, and Sequelize.

Think of it as create-next-app — but for Express.

✨ Features

• 🚀 Instant setup for an Express.js project
• 🟦 Choose JavaScript (CommonJS) or TypeScript (ESM)
• 🛠️ Built-in project structure with:
  • controllers/ (for app logic)
  • routes/ (API routes)
  • lib/ (DB connection & utilities)
  • .env preconfigured
• 📦 ORM support:
  • Mongoose (MongoDB)
  • Prisma (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, etc.)
  • Sequelize (SQL databases)
  • Or no ORM at all
• 🔧 Pre-installed dependencies:
  • express, dotenv, cors
  • ORM packages automatically added based on your choice
• 🛡️ Boilerplate with connectDB() handling & clean structure

📦 Installation

You don’t need to install globally. Just run it with npx:

npx create-express-gen myapp