🚀 Express TypeScript Starter CLI

CLI tool to scaffold a production-ready Express.js + TypeScript + MongoDB starter project

Create a new Express backend app with one command!

✨ Features

• ✅ Express.js with TypeScript
• ✅ MongoDB with Mongoose
• ✅ MVC folder structure
• ✅ Environment configuration
• ✅ Error handling & logging
• ✅ Security middleware (Helmet, CORS)
• ✅ Example routes & controllers
• ✅ Dummy data seeding
• ✅ Production-ready setup

🚀 Quick Start

Using npx (Recommended)

npx express-typescript-starter-cli my-app

Using npm

npm create express-ts-app my-app

Using yarn

yarn create express-ts-app my-app

Using pnpm

pnpm create express-ts-app my-app

📦 What's Included?

The generated project includes:

my-app/
├── src/
│   ├── config/          # Configuration (database, env)
│   ├── controllers/     # Route controllers
│   ├── middleware/      # Custom middleware
│   ├── models/          # Mongoose models
│   ├── routes/          # API routes
│   ├── scripts/         # Utility scripts (seed data)
│   ├── types/           # TypeScript types
│   ├── utils/           # Helper functions
│   ├── app.ts           # Express app setup
│   └── server.ts        # Server entry point
├── .env.example         # Environment variables template
├── .gitignore
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
└── README.md

🛠️ Usage

After creating your app:

cd my-app

# Setup environment variables
cp .env.example .env

# Start development server
npm run dev

# Optional: Seed dummy data
npm run seed

📝 Available Scripts

• npm run dev - Start development server with hot reload
• npm run build - Build TypeScript to JavaScript
• npm start - Run production server
• npm run seed - Seed database with dummy data

🔧 Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 18.0.0
• MongoDB (local or Atlas)

📚 Tech Stack

• Express.js - Web framework
• TypeScript - Type safety
• MongoDB - Database
• Mongoose - ODM
• tsx - TypeScript execution
• Helmet - Security headers
• CORS - Cross-origin resource sharing
• Compression - Response compression

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

MIT © Rdrudra99

🐛 Issues

Found a bug? Please create an issue at GitHub Issues

📧 Contact

• GitHub: @Rdrudra99
• Email: [email protected]

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