npm package discovery and stats viewer.

Discover Tips

  • General search

    [free text search, go nuts!]

  • Package details

    pkg:[package-name]

  • User packages

    @[username]

Sponsor

Optimize Toolset

I’ve always been into building performant and accessible sites, but lately I’ve been taking it extremely seriously. So much so that I’ve been building a tool to help me optimize and monitor the sites that I build to make sure that I’m making an attempt to offer the best experience to those who visit them. If you’re into performant, accessible and SEO friendly sites, you might like it too! You can check it out at Optimize Toolset.

About

Hi, 👋, I’m Ryan Hefner  and I built this site for me, and you! The goal of this site was to provide an easy way for me to check the stats on my npm packages, both for prioritizing issues and updates, and to give me a little kick in the pants to keep up on stuff.

As I was building it, I realized that I was actually using the tool to build the tool, and figured I might as well put this out there and hopefully others will find it to be a fast and useful way to search and browse npm packages as I have.

If you’re interested in other things I’m working on, follow me on Twitter or check out the open source projects I’ve been publishing on GitHub.

I am also working on a Twitter bot for this site to tweet the most popular, newest, random packages from npm. Please follow that account now and it will start sending out packages soon–ish.

Open Software & Tools

This site wouldn’t be possible without the immense generosity and tireless efforts from the people who make contributions to the world and share their work via open source initiatives. Thank you 🙏

© 2026 – Pkg Stats / Ryan Hefner

create-express-quickstart

v1.0.0

Published

Create a Node.js app for building production-ready RESTful APIs using Express, by running one command

Downloads

181

Vulnerabilities

Powered byPowered by Snyk
  • 0High
  • 0Medium
  • 0Low

Links

Git

Maintainers

vaibhavsainivaibhavsaini

Keywords

expressnodejsrest-apiapi-serverexpress-appexpress-boilerplateexpress-quickstartbackendknexmysqlsqlitedockerpm2eslintprettierjestsupertest

Readme

Express Quickstart

npm version

Express Quickstart is a boilerplate to quickly set up a production-ready RESTful API using Express.js. This package helps developers bootstrap their Node.js API projects with best practices, database support, linting, testing, and Docker integration.

Features

  • Express.js - Fast and minimal web framework
  • Knex.js - SQL query builder with support for migrations and seeding
  • MySQL2 / SQLite - Database support for production and development
  • PM2 - Process manager for production deployments
  • Docker - Containerization for development and production
  • ESLint & Prettier - Linting and code formatting
  • Jest & Supertest - Testing framework for unit and integration tests
  • Husky & Lint-Staged - Git hooks for enforcing best practices

Installation

Using npx

npx @vaibhavsaini/create-express-quickstart
cd my-app
npm install

Clone the Repository

git clone [email protected]:imVSaini/express-quickstart.git my-app
cd my-app
npm install

Usage

Development Mode

npm run server

Production Mode

npm start

Running with PM2

npm run pm2:start

Running with Docker

npm run docker:dev # Development
npm run docker:prod # Production

Database Migrations & Seeding

Creating a New Migration

npm run migrate:make

Running Migrations (Production)

npm run migrate:latest

Running Migrations (Development)

npm run migrate:up

Rolling Back Migrations (Development)

npm run migrate:down

Rolling Back Migrations (Production)

npm run migrate:rollback

Creating Seed Data

npm run seed:make

Running Seeders (Development)

npm run seed

Running Seeders (Production)

npm run seed:run

SQLite Note

If you want to use SQLite, make sure to create a .tmp directory in the root of your project.

Linting & Formatting

Linting

npm run lint

Fix Linting Issues

npm run lint:fix

Prettier Formatting

npm run prettier

Auto-fix Formatting Issues

npm run prettier:fix

Testing

Run Tests

npm test

Watch Mode

npm run test:watch

Test Coverage

npm run coverage

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please follow the existing coding style and submit pull requests for improvements.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Created by Vaibhav Saini