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expresso-cli-pro

v1.5.0

Published

Expresso CLI Pro - The ultimate Full-Stack MVC & API Scaffolder

Readme

Expresso CLI Pro 🚀☕

Expresso CLI Pro is a premium, smart full-stack framework for scaffolding professional Node.js projects with a clean MVC architecture, integrated React (Vite) frontend, auto-generated documentation, and Laravel-style API monitoring.

🌟 Key Features

  • Smart Routing: Automatically switches between React Frontend and JSON API.
  • Expresso Telescope 🔭: A beautiful, built-in Laravel Telescope clone to monitor API requests, payloads, headers, and performance in real-time.
  • Auto-Generated Swagger Docs: Generates complete API documentation (Swagger UI) automatically—no manual JSDoc required!
  • Database Auto-Creation: Instantly connects and auto-creates your MySQL/MongoDB databases and tables on first run.
  • Full-Stack Orchestrator: Run both Backend and Frontend with a single command.
  • Interactive Master Menu: No commands to remember, just run and select.

🚀 Quick Start (Backend Only)

  1. Initialize Project:

    npx expresso-cli-pro init

    (Select your DB. If using MySQL, the database and tables are created automatically!)

  2. Start Server:

    cd your-app-name
    npm run dev

🔭 Expresso Telescope (API Monitoring)

Get a stunning, real-time dashboard to monitor all incoming API traffic, exactly like Laravel Telescope.

  1. Run the generator in your project:
    npx expresso-cli-pro generate:telescope
  2. Visit http://localhost:3000/telescope
  3. Features include: Dark/Light Mode toggle, Live Polling pause/play, Request Filtering, and full Request/Response/Headers payload viewing.

📚 Auto-Generated API Docs

Tired of writing JSDoc comments? Expresso handles it automatically.

  1. Generate documentation boilerplate:
    npx expresso-cli-pro generate:docs
  2. Simply run your server using npm run dev. Your swagger_output.json will auto-generate based on your actual routes!
  3. Visit http://localhost:3000/api-docs to test your APIs.

💻 Full-Stack Setup (Add React)

  1. Add Frontend: Inside your project root, run:

    npx expresso-cli-pro g

    (Select "Frontend (React Integration)")

  2. Run Both (Dev Mode): This starts Node.js and React (Vite) simultaneously:

    npm run dev

🛠 Production Build & Deploy

When you are ready to go live, use the Smart Build command:

npx expresso-cli-pro build:stack

What this does:

  • Builds the React production bundle.
  • Syncs it to src/public.
  • Configures the server to serve it dynamically.

📂 Master Menu

If you don't want to type commands, just run:

npx expresso-cli-pro

And select your action from the menu! 🛠📦🚀