generator-express-no-stress

Create awesome Express.js applications with best of breed tech including ES.next via Babel.js, structured logging with Pino, API validation and interactive documentation via Swagger, environment based config with dotenv, linting with ESLint, and Backpack powered builds.

generator-express-no-stress 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

Install

Requires Node 6 or greater

npm install -g yo generator-express-no-stress

Scaffold

yo express-no-stress myapp

Run

Run in development mode:

cd myapp
npm run dev

Run in production mode:

npm run compile
npm start

Deploy to the Cloud

e.g. CloudFoundry

cf push myapp

Test

npm test

Debug

Run npm run debug and attach your favourite inspector!

Try it!

• Interactive API doc at http://localhost:3000/api-explorer
• Landing page at http://localhost:3000

Use Yarn

# scaffold
yo express-no-stress myapp --yarn 

# start
cd myapp
npm start

CLI Options

yo express-no-stress [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

What you get!

• Express.js - Fast, unopinionated , minimalist web framework for Node.js
• Babel.js - Use new syntax, right now without waiting for support
• 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
• Backpack - a minimalistic build system for Node.js projects.
• ESLint - a pluggable linting utility for JavaScript and JSX
• 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
        description: The example name

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: number of items to skip
          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 entity to retrieve
          type: integer
      responses:
        200:
          description: Return the example with the specified id
        404:
          description: Example not 

  /spec:
    get:
      tags:
        - Specification
      responses:
        200:
          description: Return the API specification

Invoke a POST request via the Interactive doc

Linting

express-no-stress uses ESLint with a slightly modified AirBnb base configuration. See .eslintrc.json to make modifications.

License

MIT