generator-express-no-stress-typescript


Create awesome Express.js applications with best of breed tech including Typescript, structured logging with Pino, API validation and interactive documentation via an OpenAPI 3 or Swagger 2 spec, environment based config with dotenv.
generator-express-no-stress-typescript gets you up and running in seconds. It's ridiculously easy to configure. Heck, just take the defaults. Start it. Write code.
This generator scaffolds a fully functioning REST API server complete with interactive documentation, API validation, structured logging, environment driven config, and more. Simply run the generator and smile :-D
This project is a Typescript variant of generator-express-no-stress
Here's what you get!
Install
Requires Node 6 or greater
npm install -g yo generator-express-no-stress-typescript
- See here for use with Yarn and/or Docker
Scaffold
yo express-no-stress-typescript myapp
cd myapp
Run
Run in development mode:
npm run dev
Package and run in production mode
npm run compile
npm start
Test
npm test
Debug
Run one of the following, then attach your favorite inspector.
# debug the server
npm run dev:debug
# debug the tests
npm run test:debug
Try it!
Usage: CLI
yo express-no-stress-typescript [appname] [--yarn] [--docker]
Option | default | Description |
---|
appname | myapp | The application folder |
--yarn | - | Use the yarn package manager, instead of npm |
--docker | | Install Docker artifacts including a Dockerfile |
Usage: Project
The sections below describe all usage options available once the project is generated/scaffolded.
npm targets
Target | Description |
---|
npm run dev | Run in development mode |
npm run dev:debug | Debug in development mode |
npm run test | Run tests |
npm run test:debug | Debug tests |
npm run compile | Transpile source code for production use |
npm start | Run the in production mode. *Requires running npm run compile first |
Deploy to the Cloud
e.g. CloudFoundry
cf push myapp
Use Yarn
# scaffold
yo express-no-stress-typescript myapp --yarn
# start
cd myapp
npm start
What you get!
- Typescript - Typescript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript
- Express.js - Fast, unopinionated
, minimalist web framework for Node.js
- Pino - Extremely fast node.js logger, inspired by Bunyan. It also includes a shell utility to pretty-print its log files
- dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects
- Swagger - is a simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API.
- SwaggerUI - dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API
API Validation
Simply describe your APIs with Swagger and automagically get for free:
- Interactive documentation
- API validation
Interactive API Doc

API Validation!
Oops! I the API caller forgot to pass a name
field, no stress, we've got this!

Structured Logging
Structured logging out of the box!
raw

pretty
Structured logging pretty printed by default - great for dev!

API Validation Example
Simply describe your APIs with Swagger and automatically get:
- API request validation
- Interactive documentation
example
Swagger API spec
swagger: '2.0'
info:
version: 1.0.0
title: myapp
description: My cool app
basePath: /api/v1
tags:
- name: Examples
description: Simple example endpoints
- name: Specification
description: The swagger API specification
consumes:
- application/json
produces:
- application/json
definitions:
ExampleBody:
type: object
title: example
required:
- name
properties:
name:
type: string
example: no_stress
paths:
/examples:
get:
tags:
- Examples
description: Fetch all examples
responses:
200:
description: Returns all examples
post:
tags:
- Examples
description: Create a new example
parameters:
- name: example
in: body
description: an example
required: true
schema:
$ref: '#/definitions/ExampleBody'
responses:
200:
description: Returns all examples
/examples/{id}:
get:
tags:
- Examples
parameters:
- name: id
in: path
required: true
description: The id of the example to retrieve
type: integer
responses:
200:
description: Return the example with the specified id
404:
description: Example not found
/spec:
get:
tags:
- Specification
responses:
200:
description: Return the API specification
Invoke a POST request via the Interactive doc

FAQ
Q: How do I modify the example API and make it my own?
A: There are two key files that enable you to customize and describe your API:
server/routes.ts
- This references the implementation of all of your routes. Add as many routes as you like and point each route your express handler functions.server/common/api.yaml
- This file contains your OpenAPI spec. Describe your API here. It's recommended that you to declare any and all validation logic in this YAML. express-no-stress-typescript
uses express-openapi-validator to automatically handle all API validation based on what you've defined in the spec.
Q: I previously generated an app, but I want to change the API root. How do I do this?
A: You need to make to small changes
- Modify
server/routes.ts
app.use('/api/v2/examples', examplesRouter);
- Modify
server/common/api.yaml
and update the api root:
servers:
- url: /api/v2
License
MIT

Contributors ✨
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!