create-tsxpress: Rapid Express + TypeScript API Scaffolding CLI

A powerful ⚡️ Command Line Interface (CLI) tool designed to streamline the setup of new Express.js applications with TypeScript. create-tsxpress rapidly generates a production-ready boilerplate, enabling developers to kickstart their backend projects with best practices built-in. This project itself is a CLI that leverages various modern Node.js tools to provide an intuitive and efficient project creation experience. 🚀

🚀 Getting Started

Usage

To scaffold a new Express + TypeScript project, simply run:

npx create-tsxpress <app-name>

Replace <app-name> with your desired project folder name.

This command will generate a complete Express.js + TypeScript setup with best practices, dependencies, and development scripts ready to use.

✨ Features

create-tsxpress generates projects with a robust, opinionated structure, emphasizing developer experience and production readiness. Key features of the generated template include:

• TypeScript Integration: Leverage strong typing and modern ECMAScript features for robust and maintainable code.
• Express.js Framework: A minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework.
• Production-Ready Structure: An organized and scalable project layout, promoting modularity and clean architecture.
• Enhanced Security: Integrates helmet for HTTP header security, cors for cross-origin resource sharing, and express-rate-limit to protect against brute-force attacks.
• Centralized Error Handling: Custom middleware for elegant handling of application-specific and unexpected errors, including a notFoundHandler and errorHandler.
• Structured Logging: Utilizes winston for comprehensive and customizable logging, making debugging and monitoring easier.
• Environment Configuration: Seamless integration with dotenv for managing sensitive credentials and environment-specific settings.
• Developer Experience: Configured with nodemon for automatic server restarts on file changes and tsconfig-paths for cleaner import aliases.

🛠️ Technologies Used

| Technology | Description | Link | | :--------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------ | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Node.js | JavaScript runtime environment | nodejs.org | | TypeScript | Superset of JavaScript with type safety | typescriptlang.org | | Express.js | Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework | expressjs.com | | Winston | Versatile logging library | github.com/winstonjs/winston | | Helmet | Secures Express apps by setting HTTP headers | helmetjs.github.io | | CORS | Middleware for enabling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing | expressjs.com/en/resources/middleware/cors.html | | Express Rate Limit | Basic rate-limiting middleware for Express applications | www.npmjs.com/package/express-rate-limit | | Dotenv | Loads environment variables from a .env file | github.com/motdotla/dotenv | | Nodemon | Monitors for changes and automatically restarts | nodemon.io | | Commander.js | Node.js command-line interfaces made easy | www.npmjs.com/package/commander | | Inquirer.js | Common interactive command-line user interfaces | www.npmjs.com/package/inquirer | | Chalk | Terminal string styling done right | www.npmjs.com/package/chalk | | Ora | Elegant terminal spinner | www.npmjs.com/package/ora | | Degit | Straightforward project scaffolding | github.com/Rich-Harris/degit |

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are what make the open-source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. We welcome contributions to create-tsxpress!

• ✨ Fork the repository on GitHub: github.com/teajhaney/create-tsxpress
• 🌿 Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature).
• 📝 Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature').
• 🚀 Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature).
• 📬 Open a Pull Request, describing your changes and their benefits.

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the package.json file for more details.

👤 Author

Yusuf Tijani Olatunde (섭이)

• Email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yusuf-tijani-605b04167
• Twitter: x.com/teajhaney
• GitHub: github.com/teajhaney

(The template created by this CLI was originally authored by Yusuf Tijani Olatunde (섭이).)

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