TypeORM with MariaDB / Express / TypeScript RESTful API boilerplate

This is a fork of mkosir´s boilerplate. It has been adapted to my needs with:

• Change of Postgres to MariaDB
• TypeORM v0.2 upgrade to v0.3
• Remove of Docker

Boilerplate with focus on best practices and painless developer experience:

• Minimal setup that can be extended 🔧
• Spin it up with single command 🌀
• TypeScript first
• RESTful APIs
• JWT authentication with role based authorization

Requirements

• Node v16+
• MariaDB

Running

Easily set up a local development environment with single command!

• clone the repo
• npm run dev 🚀

Visit localhost:4000 or if using Postman grab config.

_Overview__ 💥

• Node (v16 ) with running boilerplate RESTful API service
• MariaDB database can be seeded with 💊 Breaking Bad characters in Users table (set your credentials in .env file)

Features

• Express framework
• TypeScript v4 codebase
• TypeORM using Data Mapper pattern
• Contract first REST API design:
  • never break API again with HTTP responses and requests payloads using type definitions
  • Consistent schema error response. Your frontend will always know how to handle errors thrown in try...catch statements 💪
• JWT authentication and role based authorization using custom middleware
• Set local, stage or production environmental variables with type definitions
• Logging with morgan
• Unit and integration tests with Mocha and Chai
• Linting with ESLint
• Prettier code formatter
• Git hooks with Husky and lint-staged
• Automated npm dependency updates with Renovate (set to patch version only)
• Commit messages must meet conventional commits format.
  After staging changes just run npm run commit and get instant feedback on your commit message formatting and be prompted for required fields by Commitizen

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Contributing

All contributions are welcome!

Hint for git ignored files

Config files have been ignored from git index to not track any further changes

git update-index --assume-unchanged .env
git update-index --assume-unchanged config/

To revert simply use

git update-index --no-assume-unchanged .env
git update-index --no-assume-unchanged config/