A starter project for server-rendered Express applications using Nunjucks, TailwindCSS and Postgres
Pre-requisites:
- Docker for Desktop
Run docker-compose up in the root of the project.
It will bring up Postgres and the Express application server in development mode.
It binds the application server to localhost:3000, this can be re-mapped this by changing the first 3000 in 3000:3000 of ./docker-compose.yaml).
The default Docker CMD is npm start, ./docker-compose.yaml overrides this to npm run dev which runs the application using nodemon (auto-restart on file change).
The Express "page" resources are located in ./src/pages.
Their corresponding Nunjucks templates are in ./src/views.
Applications routes for pages are defined in ./src/router.js.
Global concerns like security, cookie parsing, body parsing and request logging are handled in ./server.js.
This application loosely follows the Presentation Domain Data Layering:
- Presentation is dealt with in the
./src/pagesfolder - Domain is dealt with in the
./src/modulesfolder. - Persistence is dealt with in the
./src/persistencefolder.