🚀 Express Backend Starter

A lightning-fast way to bootstrap your Express.js backend project with essential configurations and best practices. Features real-time API logging with beautiful formatting and comprehensive monitoring tools to make development workflow smoother.

🚦 Quick Start

You can create your backend project in three ways:

1. Using npx (Recommended)

npx node-exstarter my-backend-app
cd my-backend-app
npm run dev

2. In Existing Folder

# First create and enter your project folder
mkdir my-backend-app
cd my-backend-app

# Initialize the Express backend
npm install node-exstarter
 

# Start development server
npm run dev

📁 Project Structure

my-backend-app/
├── src/
│   ├── config/      # Configuration files
│   ├── controllers/ # Route controllers
│   ├── middlewares/ # Custom middlewares
│   ├── models/      # MongoDB models
│   ├── routes/      # API routes
│   └── utils/       # Utility functions
├── .env             # Environment variables
├── .gitignore
├── package.json
└── server.js        # Entry point

⚙️ Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root directory:

PORT=5000
MONGO_URI=your-mongodb-connection-string

🛣️ Available Scripts

• npm run dev - Start development server with nodemon
• npm start - Start production server

📝 Configuration

MongoDB Connection

Update the MONGO_URI in your .env file:

MONGO_URI=mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@cluster.mongodb.net/your-db

CORS Configuration

CORS is pre-configured to accept all origins. Modify in server.js for production.

✨ Features

• 🛠️ Pre-configured Express.js professional setup
• 📦 One command installation
• 📜 Realtime API logging
• 🔐 JWT authentication ready
• 🗄️ MongoDB connection setup
• 🔄 CORS enabled
• 📁 Structured project architecture
• ⚡ Development ready with nodemon
• 🌍 Environment variables configuration

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! Feel free to contribute to make this starter template even better.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the ISC License

👨‍💻 Developed By

Mehedi Hasan Shanto

Full Stack Developer | MERN Specialist

• 🌐 Portfolio: mehedishanto.web.app
• 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mehedi-shanto
• 🐱 GitHub: @mehedifiz

"Building tools that make developers' lives easier"

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