Expressjs + MongoDB API Example

Starter Project for building RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express and MongoDB

Features

• ES2017 latest features like Async/Await
• CORS enabled
• Uses yarn
• Express + MongoDB (Mongoose)
• Uses helmet to set some HTTP headers for security
• Load environment variables from .env files with dotenv
• Request validation with joi
• Gzip compression with compression
• Linting with eslint
• Git hooks with husky
• Logging with morgan

Getting Started

Install dependencies:

yarn

Set environment variables:

cp .env.example .env

Running Locally

yarn dev

Running in Production

yarn start

Lint

# lint code with ESLint
yarn lint

# try to fix ESLint errors
yarn lint:fix

# lint and watch for changes
yarn lint:watch