express-middleware-generator

Yeoman generator for ExpressJS middleware in ES6 (Requires at least Node 5)

Requirements

• Node 5 or above
• Gulp npm install -g gulp-cli

Installation

Pull the generator from NPM

npm install -g generator-express-middleware

Create your very first project!

yo express-middleware

Features

• ES6 implementation to make it faster, reducing the number of dependencies to 0.
• Gulp, mocha and chai testing scaffolding
• gulp-bump to help you to manage your versions
• Editor config file to enforce your coding style (supported by Webstorm out of the box or sublime/atom and others with plugins)
• Custom JSHint config file to customize your own rules
• Express App included to test some specific scenarios
• Watch task to execute test cases as you modify your middleware or test cases code, boost your productivity
• You can write a wrapper around this generator (for instance a web app) to automate the generator

Usage

Testing

There are three ways to run test cases:

npm test

or

gulp test

or let them run automatically every time you make a change by keep this command running in the background (my personal favorite)

gulp watch

Automated generator

You can just create a folder, dump a file with the name project.json with the settings that you want and invoke the generator with the flag --usefile.

Example

> ls
project.json
> yo express-middleware --usefile

Gulp Tasks (Developer info)

Code hint

gulp jshint

Bumping version

Automatically updates package.json, creates a git tag and pushes. **

Patch (bumps 0.0.1 to 0.0.2)

gulp bump

Minor (bumps 0.0.1 to 0.1.0)

gulp bump --minor

Major (bumps 0.0.1 to 1.0.0)

gulp bump --major

Custom version (bumps to 3.0.0)

gulp bump --version:3.0.0