create-express-vercel-typescript-app

Scaffold a minimal Express + TypeScript backend ready for Vercel deployment.

This CLI generates a production-ready project structure with:

• Express
• TypeScript (NodeNext / ESM)
• Nodemon for development
• Vercel configuration
• tsconfig setup
• Optional git initialization
• Optional dependency installation

Commands

Run directly using:

npm create express-vercel-typescript-app@latest my-app

or

npx create-express-vercel-typescript-app@latest my-app

Usage:

npm create express-vercel-typescript-app <project-name>

Optional flags:

• --no-install Skip npm install
• --git Initialize a git repository
• -h, --help Show help

If no project name is provided, the CLI will prompt you interactively.

Generated Project Structure

my-app/
  src/
    index.ts
  nodemon.json
  package.json
  package-lock.json
  tsconfig.json
  vercel.json

Development

After scaffolding

cd my-app
npm run dev

Production build

npm run build
npm start

Vercel deployment

The project includes a vercel.json configuration.

Deploy using:

vercel

Or connect the repository through the Vercel dashboard.

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18
• npm >= 8

License

MIT