nodejs express api starter kit

Very basic nodejs express project starter kit. Meant as a starter for a backend/api kind of project. Mainly saved here for my own reference.

Tech stack

• express for setting up api in nodejs
• eslint and prettier for linting
• nodemon for auto reloading server when you edit files

Requirements

• nodejs 16.10 or higher
• run corepack enable

Usage

• run yarn start to start the server

Production

With newer versions of nodejs most newer javascript features are now supported. So transpiling and bundling is not really needed, even for production, as long as we're only making backends and not targeting browsers. Which means you can just clone this on the server and run it the same way you would in development. Inspired by this article.

Setup project

This project has been set up using the following commands, if cloning this you don't have to redo these, they're just here for reference.

• yarn init -2
• Update .yarnrc.yml to include enableGlobalCache: true and nodeLinker: node-modules if you want to use traditional node_modules folder instead of the new plug and play.
• yarn add express
• yarn add --dev nodemon
• npm init @eslint/config
• yarn add --dev eslint-config-prettier eslint-plugin-prettier prettier
• Set up prefered linting settings in .eslintrc.json, create .prettierrc.json and .prettierignore files
• Update package.json to include main and scripts.start
• Write basic express server in index.js