ExpressJS server boilerplate

ExpressJS backend boilerplate including:

• Views Template: Handlebars
• CSS Engine: SCSS - Node-sass-middleware
• ODM: Mongoose
• UI Framework: Bootstrap

Prepopulated with Express middlewares:

• Logger: morgan
• HTTP POST Params: body-parser
• Cookies: cookie-parser

Facilities:

• Gitignore file
• Seeds file
• Error handling

Directory structure

express-generator/
├── app.js
├── package.json
├── .gitignoe
├── routes
│   │── index.js
│   └── base.routes.js
├── models
│   └── user.model.js
├── utils
│   └── index.js
├── middlewares
│   └── index.js
├── views
│   │── layout.hbs
│   │── errors
│   │   │── not-found.hbs
│   │   └── server-error.hbs
│   │── pages
│   │   └── index.hbs
│   └── partials
├── public
│   ├── img
│   ├── js
│   │   └── script.js
│   └── css
│       └── styles.sass
├── config
│   │── db.config.js
│   │── debug.config.js
│   │── hbs.config.js
│   │── locals.config.js
│   │── middleware.config.js
│   │── sass.config.js
│   └── views.config.js
└── bin
    ├── seeds.js
    └── www

Install

• Run npm i on the root directory

Run

• Create a .env file on the root directory to link the MongoDB URI (MONGODB_URI) and port (PORT)
• Run npm run dev command on the root directory