Typescript / Express - Kit

A configured boilerplate kit with Express.js + Typescript for the building of APIs.

Environment Variables

This project is using dotenv to load a .env file at the root of the project. This file should have the following variables configured:

PORT - Port to be used by the express server.

NPM Scripts

These are the currently configured scripts for running with NPM.

npm start - runs /out/server.js with node.
npm run dev - runs /out/server with nodemon.
npm run watch - runs the typescript compiler with watch.
npm run compile - runs the typescript compiler.
npm test - uses mocha to run all the tests in the test folder.