Starter for Node.js Express API in Typescript with jsonwebtoken, joi, Knex, Objection.js and many other popular tools.

Requirements

• Node.js
• Yarn
• NPM
• Docker

Getting Started

Clone the repository, install the dependencies.

$ git clone [email protected]:cham11ng/typescript-api-starter.git <application-name>

$ cd <application-name>

$ cp .env.example .env # Update database credentials

$ yarn migrate

Load fake data in database.

$ yarn load:fake <FactoryName> <Number>

Start the application.

$ yarn build # For production

$ yarn start # For development

Using Docker

Make a copy of .env.docker and save as .env.

$ cp .env.docker .env

Install dependencies and run the application locally.

$ docker compose up -d postgres

$ docker compose up -d api

$ docker compose exec api sh yarn migrate # Make sure server is started checking logs before running this command

View logs of the container.

$ docker compose logs -f

To stop the services.

$ docker compose stop api postgres

Generating Migrations and Seeds

To create migration use make:migration and seed use make:seeder:

$ yarn make:migration create_{table_name}_table

$ yarn make:seeder {table_name}_table_seeder

Example,

$ yarn make:migration create_posts_table

$ yarn make:seeder post_table_seeder

Modify migration and seeder file as per the requirement. Then finally:

$ yarn migrate # to migrate

$ yarn seed # to seed

Setting up REST Client

Create a file or add following lines in .vscode > settings.json and switch an environment Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P > REST Client: Switch Environment. Then, you can request APIs from api.rest file.

{
  "rest-client.environmentVariables": {
    "$shared": {
      "refreshToken": "foo",
      "accessToken": "bar",
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "password": "secret" 
    },
    "local": {
      "host": "localhost",
      "refreshToken": "{{$shared refreshToken}}",
      "accessToken": "{{$shared accessToken}}",
      "email": "{{$shared email}}",
      "password": "{{$shared password}}"
    }
  }
}

Contributing

Feel free to send pull requests.

License

typescript-api-starter is under MIT License.