express-typescript-api

A minimalistic typescript nodejs express boilerplate application for REST API

Features

• Typescript with typings definitions
• Environment settings config files for different environments
• DI
• Validation middleware
• Loging with Winston
• Docker dev environment

Installation

Install npm dependency

npm install

Compile JavaScript

npm run build

Running locally

Once JavaScript is compiled app can be run locally on system with NodeJS by

npm start

App should be now accessible from the browser level at localhost:3000

Running in Docker

To build docker image

docker build -t express-typescript-api .

To run docker container

docker run -t --rm -p 3000:3000 -v $(pwd):/app express-typescript-api

App should be now accessible from the browser level at localhost:3000