⚡ TypeScript Express Backend Starter

A clean, production-ready TypeScript + Node.js backend boilerplate built with modern best practices. Instant Express app generation with npx.

🚀 Quickstart

npx create-ts-express-app@latest my-project-name
cd my-project-name
npm install
npm run dev

You're up and running in seconds. Just ship.

🧰 Features

• ⚙️ Fully typed Express.js setup
• 🔄 Hot reloading with ts-node-dev
• 🔐 .env-based configuration
• ✅ Clean file structure built to scale
• 🧱 Error handling middleware
• 🛠️ Scripts for dev & prod workflows

📦 Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+
• npm or yarn

🧪 Development

Start dev server with hot reloading:

npm run dev

Or watch all file changes:

npm run dev:watch

🚢 Production

Build & run:

npm run build
npm start

🌳 Project Structure

my-project/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts        # App entry
│   ├── routes/         # Routes
│   ├── controllers/    # Route logic
│   ├── middleware/     # Custom middleware
│   └── config/         # Config (env, db, etc.)
├── dist/               # Compiled JS (auto-generated)
├── .env                # Environment variables
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

🎯 Scripts

| Command | Description | |---------------------|-------------------------------------| | npm run dev | Start dev server (hot reload) | | npm run dev:watch | Dev with full file watching | | npm run build | Compile TypeScript to JavaScript | | npm start | Start production server |

📄 License

MIT — Use it. Build with it. Ship something great.