nirmitee-backend

Scaffold an Express backend with TypeScript or JavaScript and MongoDB or Prisma (Postgres).

Usage

npx nirmitee-backend my-app

Choose database (MongoDB or SQL), language (TypeScript or JavaScript), package manager (pnpm, npm, yarn, bun), and whether to init git. The CLI copies env.example to .env, installs dependencies, and optionally creates an initial commit. Then:

cd my-app
# Edit .env with your DB URL and secrets (if using a database)
pnpm run dev   # or npm/yarn/bun run dev

Options

• --template-version <tag> — Use a specific template tag or branch from GitHub instead of the bundled templates (e.g. npx nirmitee-backend my-app --template-version v1.0.0).

Template structure

template/
├── typescript/          # Base TS source (no DB-specific code)
│   └── components/db/
│       ├── mongodb/     # MongoDB overlay
│       ├── prisma/      # Prisma/SQL overlay
│       └── none/        # No database
├── javascript/          # Base JS (ESM)
│   └── components/db/
│       ├── mongodb/
│       ├── prisma/
│       └── none/
└── components/db/
    ├── mongodb/README.md  # MongoDB setup guide
    ├── none/README.md     # No database
    └── prisma/
        ├── schema.prisma  # Canonical Prisma schema
        └── README.md      # Prisma setup guide

The CLI composes base + database overlay: it copies the language base, overlays the chosen DB (MongoDB or Prisma), merges package.json and env.example, then runs pnpm install.

Development

• pnpm run scaffold — scaffold a test project (my-backend) using bundled templates
• pnpm run lint / pnpm run lint:fix — ESLint
• pnpm run spellcheck — cspell

License

MIT — see LICENSE.