Because we love ES6, ES7 and ESWhateverYouWant, Tanuki uses babel so you can always use the latest JS features. Tanuki also uses pm2 because it's an adorable solution to deploy applications and it runs your nodejs script as a multithreaded application.
We require our modules and configurations to build the server and the app.
Then we attach our features (from other folders) to the server and the app :
- Api routes in the API folder.
3 main folders :
- models/
- middlewares/
- routes/
Get data from your database and return it as a raw Javascript Object
Retrieve data from your models, process the data and add it to the req object, then call next().
Use your middlewares to obtain the data needed, then write a 'last middleware' that will get the req object, gather the datas and return it.
The perpice of this project is to be the base project for any new API / Website I'll make. It has to depend on reliable libs so I won't have to worry about security issues, or dependencies maintainment. Features won't be coded 'from scratch' but build with well known and well adopted packages :
- Express as back-end framework
- Passport for authentication
- Joi for body validation
- mocha and supertest for testing