RESTful API Node Server Boilerplate

A boilerplate/starter project for quickly building production-ready RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose.

It comes with many built-in features, such as authentication using JWT, request validation, etc. For more details about the features, check the list below.

Features

• ES9: latest ECMAScript features
• NoSQL database: MongoDB object data modeling using Mongoose
• Authentication and authorization: using passport
• Validation: request data validation using Joi
• Logging: using winston and morgan
• Error handling: centralized error handling mechanism
• Dependency management: with Yarn
• Environment variables: using dotenv and cross-env
• Security: set security HTTP headers using helmet
• Santizing: sanitize request data against xss and query injection
• CORS: Cross-Origin Resource-Sharing enabled using cors
• Social Login: Login with Google and Facebook

Getting Started

Installation

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/praveen7557/node-mongo.git
cd node-mongo

Install dependencies:

yarn install

Environment varibales:

cp .env.example .env

# open .env and modify the environment variables (if needed)

Commands

Running locally:

yarn dev

Running in production:

yarn start

Inspirations

• hagopj13/node-express-mongoose-boilerplate