Lean Boilerplate

A simple cli to scaffold your Node JS app fast for REST API's, Shopify Apps, Machine Learning and AI.

Installation

npm install -g es6-swagger-boilerplate-init

Getting Started

After installing the package as a global executable. You will be able to use "Boilerplate" command to generate new boilerplate.

$~ es6-swagger-boilerplate

Boilerplate Structure

A basic User Controller and Model has already been made with it collection schema for mongodb with some examples of the validations.

The boilerplate uses lang files for the storage of static data and mail structures to be used in the API.

JsonWebToken and Nodemailer integration has also been made using the helpers file integration.

├── controllers
|    ├── common.js
|    ├── content.js
|    ├── index.js
|    └── user.js
├── models
|    ├── content.js
|    ├── device.js
|    ├── index.js
|    └── users.js
├── services
|    ├── common.services.js
├── app.js
├── routes
│   └── index.js
├── bin
│   └── www
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
└── public
    └── css
       └── style.css

Preinstalled Packages

• axios
• cors*
• dotenv*
• jsonwebtoken*
• lodash
• mongodb*
• mongoose*
• mongoose-beautiful-unique-validation*
• mongoose-validator*
• multer
• nodemailer (*)
• randomstring
• express-swagger-generator (*)(dev)

(*) Indicates that the package has been integrated with helpers files for plug and play usage. (dev) Indicates its a Developer Dependency

Environment Variables

A predefined .env.example file is present in the root of the boilerplate.

The variables are being used throughout the boilerplate and new variables can be added to it and can be accessed anywhere in the boilerplate using process.env.VARIABLE_NAME

Use the command below to copy the .env.example to a new .env file which the boilerplate will use.

cp .env.example .env

Contents of the .env

MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/es6nodeswagger

SWAGGER_TITLE=NodeJS API Boilerplate
SWAGGER_DESCRIPTION=NodeJS API Boilerplate - Sample API Sandbox
SWAGGER_VERSION=1.0.1
SWAGGER_API_HOST=localhost:3000

SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT=465
SMTP_SSL=tls
SMTP_USER=
SMTP_PASS=

JWT_KEY=tHisAvErYsECuReKeY
JWT_AUDIENCE=NoDeGeNeRaToR
JWT_EXPIRY=10h

PORT=3000

Swagger Integration

Swagger has been integrated as a middleware in the boilerplate.

The documentation will be available at

http://SWAGGER_API_HOST/api-docs

Documentation will be generated automatically by making comments over the methods in the controller files.

Example can be found in app > controllers > UserController.js

Author

Laxman Singh