RESTful API

Installation

Clone the repo:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/al77ex1/ExpressJS-Starter-Kit
cd expressjs-starter-kit
npx rimraf ./.git

Install the dependencies:

yarn install

Set the environment variables:

cp .env.example .env

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

Table of Contents

• Features
• Commands
• Environment Variables
• Project Structure
• API Documentation
• Error Handling
• Validation
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Logging
• Linting

Features

• SQL database: using Sequelize
• Authentication and authorization: using passport
• Validation: using Joi
• Logging: using winston and morgan
• Testing: using Jest
• Error handling: handling mechanism
• API documentation: with swagger-jsdoc and swagger-ui-express
• Process management: using PM2
• Dependency management: with Yarn
• Environment variables: using dotenv and cross-env
• Security: using helmet
• Santizing: sanitize request data against xss and query injection
• CORS: using cors
• Compression: gzip compression
• CI: Travis CI
• Docker support
• Code coverage: using coveralls
• Code quality: with Codacy
• Git hooks: with husky and lint-staged
• Linting: with ESLint and Prettier
• Editor config: using EditorConfig
• Automatic migrations: using sequelize-mig

Commands

Running locally:

yarn dev

Running in production:

yarn start

Testing:

# run all tests
yarn test

# run all tests in watch mode
yarn test:watch

# run test coverage
yarn coverage

Docker:

# run docker container in development mode
yarn docker:dev

# run docker container in production mode
yarn docker:prod

# run all tests in a docker container
yarn docker:test

Linting:

# run ESLint
yarn lint

# fix ESLint errors
yarn lint:fix

# run prettier
yarn prettier

# fix prettier errors
yarn prettier:fix

Environment Variables

In the .env file.

Project Structure

src\
 |--config\         # Environment variables and configuration related things
 |--controllers\    # Route controllers (controller layer)
 |--docs\           # Swagger files
 |--middlewares\    # Custom express middlewares
 |--models\         # Models (data layer)
 |--routes\         # Routes
 |--services\       # Business logic (service layer)
 |--utils\          # Utility classes and functions
 |--validations\    # Request data validation schemas
 |--app.js          # Express app
 |--index.js        # App entry point

API Documentation

Run the server and go to http://localhost:3000/v1/docs.

API Endpoints

List of available routes:

Auth routes:
POST /v1/auth/register - register
POST /v1/auth/login - login
POST /v1/auth/refresh-tokens - refresh auth tokens
POST /v1/auth/forgot-password - send reset password email
POST /v1/auth/reset-password - reset password
POST /v1/auth/send-verification-email - send verification email
POST /v1/auth/verify-email - verify email

User routes:
POST /v1/users - create a user
GET /v1/users - get all users
GET /v1/users/:userId - get user
PATCH /v1/users/:userId - update user
DELETE /v1/users/:userId - delete user

Error Handling

The catchAsync utility.

Validation

const express = require('express');
const validate = require('../../middlewares/validate');
const userValidation = require('../../validations/user.validation');
const userController = require('../../controllers/user.controller');

const router = express.Router();

router.post('/users', validate(userValidation.createUser), userController.createUser);

Authentication

const express = require('express');
const auth = require('../../middlewares/auth');
const userController = require('../../controllers/user.controller');

const router = express.Router();

router.post('/users', auth(), userController.createUser);

Authorization

const express = require('express');
const auth = require('../../middlewares/auth');
const userController = require('../../controllers/user.controller');

const router = express.Router();

router.post('/users', auth('manageUsers'), userController.createUser);

Logging

const logger = require('<path to src>/config/logger');

logger.error('message'); // level 0
logger.warn('message'); // level 1
logger.info('message'); // level 2
logger.http('message'); // level 3
logger.verbose('message'); // level 4
logger.debug('message'); // level 5

Linting

Linting is done using ESLint and Prettier.

Automatic migrations

Run the project in development mode then create a migration in other terminal:

yarn migration:make

or

yarn docker:migration:make

Run your migration:

yarn migration:run

or

yarn docker:migration:run