My Node Boilerplate with TypeScript

⚙️ Configs

• 🔄 Dependabot — Automated dependency updates for GitHub repositories.
• 💠 Express — Fast, flexible web framework for Node.js
• 🗃️ Prisma — A modern database ORM
• ✨ TSX — Node.js library with esbuild to run TypeScript & ESM files
• ⚡ TSUP — A fast and flexible TypeScript building tool
• 📁 Dotenv-cli — To load multiple environment variables files
• 🔧 ESLint — Pluggable JavaScript linter
• 🎨 Prettier — Opinionated Code Formatter
• 📝 Commitzen — Git commit message helper
• 🐶 Husky — Use git hooks with ease
• 🚫 Lint-staged — Run linters against staged git files

Libs

• 🔒 Zod — TypeScript-first schema validation.
• 🔑 JWT — JSON Web Token implementation.
• 🔬 Jest — A popular JavaScript testing framework
• 🔐 Bcrypt — Library for hashing passwords.
• 🛡️ Helmet — Express middleware for securing HTTP headers.
• ✂️ Saniteze-html — Remove HTML tags from a string.

🚀 Getting Started

To use this boilerplate as a template for your own project, follow these steps:

• Click on the Use this template button on this repository page to create a new repository from this template.
• Choose a name and configure the new repository as desired.
• Clone the newly created repository to your local machine with the following command in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/<YOUR_USERNAME>/<YOUR_PROJECT_NAME>.git

After cloning the repository, run the following commands inside the project folder:

• Install the dependencies with npm install
• Create an env.development file in the envs folder
• Configure the environment variables based on the envs/.env.development.example
• Run the project with npm run dev

📁 Main File Structure

├── 📁.github // GitHub workflows
├── 📁.husky // Git hooks
├── 📁.envs // Environment variables
├── 📁.prisma // Prisma ORM configuration
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├── 📁src
|   ├── 📁configs // Application configurations
|   ├── 📁controllers // Request controllers
|   ├── 📁errors // Custom error classes
|   ├── 📁middlewares // Middleware functions
|   ├── 📁repositories // Data access layer
|   ├── 📁routes  // Application routes
|   ├── 📁schemas // Request schemas
|   ├── 📁services // Business logic layer
|   ├── 📁utils // General utilities
|   |   ├──📁constants // Global constants
|   |   └──📁functions // Utility functions
|   |
|   ├── 📄app.ts // Express app configuration
|   └── 📄server.ts // Server entry point
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├── 📁tests
|   ├── 📁factories // Test data factories
|   ├── 📁integration // Integration tests
|   └── 📁unit // Unit tests
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├── 📄.eslintrc.json // ESLint configuration file
├── 📄.prettierrc // Prettier configuration file
├── 📄jest.config.ts // Jest configuration file
├── 📄README.md // Project documentation
├── 📄package.json // NPM package configuration file
└── 📄tsconfig.json // TypeScript configuration file

How to use commitzen

1. Run git add to stage changes
2. Run git commit without providing a message to use Commitzen
3. Use the Commitzen interface to write and confirm the commit message

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🤝 Contributing

If you want to contribute to this template, follow these steps:

• Fork this repository
• Create a new branch with their feature using git checkout -b my-feature.
• Commit their changes using git commit -m 'Adding new feature'.
• Push the changes to their branch using git push origin my-feature.
• Open a pull request on your repository.