Boilerplate for Node-Express with sequelize ORM

A boilerplate for any enterprise rest api or service with Node.js, Express and Sequelize ORM for mysql, postgresql or others.

By running this project you will get a production ready environment with all necessary supports for validation, unit testing, socket, redis and many more.

Manual Installation

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/aoyan107/node-express-mysql-boilerplate
cd node-express-mysql-boilerplate

Install the dependencies:

yarn install

Set the environment variables:

cp .env.example .env

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

Features

• ORM: Sequelize orm for object data modeling
• Migration and Seed: DB migration and Seed using Sequelize-CLI
• Authentication and authorization: using passport
• Error handling: centralized error handling
• Validation: request data validation using Joi
• Logging: using winston
• Testing: unittests using Mocha
• Caching: Caching using Redis
• Bidirectional Communication: using Scoket
• Job scheduler: with Node-cron
• Dependency management: with Yarn
• Environment variables: using dotenv and cross-env
• CORS: Cross-Origin Resource-Sharing enabled using cors
• Docker support
• Linting: with ESLint and Prettier

Commands

Running locally:

yarn dev

Running in production:

yarn start

Testing:

# run all tests
yarn test

Environment Variables

The environment variables can be found and modified in the .env file. They come with these default values:

#Server environment
NODE_ENV=development
#Port number
PORT=5000

#Db configuration
DB_HOST=db-host
DB_USER=db-user
DB_PASS=db-pass
DB_NAME=db-name


# JWT secret key
JWT_SECRET=your-jwt-secret-key
# Number of minutes after which an access token expires
JWT_ACCESS_EXPIRATION_MINUTES=5
# Number of days after which a refresh token expires
JWT_REFRESH_EXPIRATION_DAYS=30

#Log config
LOG_FOLDER=logs/
LOG_FILE=%DATE%-app-log.log
LOG_LEVEL=error

#Redis
REDIS_HOST=redis-host
REDIS_PORT=6379
REDIS_USE_PASSWORD=no
REDIS_PASSWORD=your-password

Project Structure

specs\
src\
 |--config\         # Environment variables and configuration related things
 |--controllers\    # Route controllers (controller layer)
 |--dao\            # Data Access Object for models
 |--db\             # Migrations and Seed files
 |--models\         # Sequelize models (data layer)
 |--routes\         # Routes
 |--services\       # Business logic (service layer)
 |--helper\         # Helper classes and functions
 |--validations\    # Request data validation schemas
 |--app.js          # Express app
 |--cronJobs.js     # Job Scheduler
 |--index.js        # App entry point

License

MIT