Table of contents

• Environment variables
• How to run
  • Docker for development
  • Dependencies
  • Migrations

This is a boilerplate for back end development using the following technologies:

• Node.js

• Express.js

• PrismaORM

• ESLint + Prettier for code Linting

• Docker for the development environment with

  • Node.js v18 (current LTS version)
  • PostgreSQL

• I'm using yarn, but you can use any other package manager, for example npm:

npm run <SCRIPT_NAME>

Environment variables

If you just want to run the development sever, just copy and paste the values from .env.example to a new .env file

cp .env.example .env

How to run

Docker for development

• If you have Node.js installed, just run

yarn dc:dev

Otherwise, just run the following commands:

• First of all, you need to build containers

docker compose build

• Start containers in detached mode

docker compose up -d

• Enter the node container

docker compose exec app bash

Dependencies

• Install dependencies

yarn

Migrations

• Run migrations

yarn migrate:run

• If you made changes to prisma/schema.prisma, don't forget to create a migration:

yarn migrate:dev