mern-book-boilerplate

A CLI that scaffolds a full MERN stack app (React client + Express/MongoDB server), based on mern-book-fe and mern-book-be.

Usage

npx mern-book-boilerplate <project-name>

Example:

npx mern-book-boilerplate my-app
cd my-app
npm run install:all
# .env files are already included in frontend/ and backend/
# edit backend/.env and set MONGO_URI to your MongoDB connection string
npm install
npm run dev

This creates:

my-app/
├── frontend/        # React app (axios, ready-to-use API client)
├── backend/         # Express + Mongoose API (routes/controllers/services/models)
├── package.json     # root scripts to run both apps together
└── README.md

Root scripts

| Script | What it does | | --- | --- | | npm run install:all | installs dependencies in both frontend and backend | | npm run frontend | starts the React dev server | | npm run backend | starts the Express server with nodemon | | npm run dev | runs frontend + backend together (needs npm install first, for concurrently) |

Stack

• Client: React 19, Axios, react-scripts
• Server: Express 5, Mongoose, CORS, dotenv, nodemon (dev)

Publishing this package

If you want to publish your own copy to npm:

npm login
npm publish --access public

(Bump the version in package.json for subsequent releases.)

License

MIT