This Express TypeScript Starter is designed to be a comprehensive template for building high-quality web applications using Express with TypeScript.

• Type Safety: TypeScript provides static type checking, which helps catch errors early in the development process.
• Improved Developer Experience: Features like auto-completion and code navigation enhance productivity and code quality.

• Simplified Routing: Easily manage routes through a file-based routing system, which organizes endpoints within the file structure.
• Automatic Route Discovery: New routes are automatically recognized without manual registration, streamlining the development workflow.

An example of file-based routing can be seen below:

// src/routes/user.ts import { Router } from 'express'; const router = Router(); // GET request for http://localhost:5000/user router.get('/', function (req, res) { res.send('User List'); }); // POST request for http://localhost:5000/user/create router.post('/create', function (req, res) { res.send('User created'); }); export default router;

Thats it! No more integration.

• Code Quality Enforcement: Husky integrates Git hooks that ensure code standards are met before commits and pushes (e.g., linting and testing).
• Automated Workflows: Set up pre-commit and pre-push workflows to automate tasks like code formatting and validation.

Start with npm run prepare

• Consistent Code Style: Enforce a consistent coding style across the project, making the codebase easier to understand and maintain.
• Catch Common Errors: Identify and fix common coding mistakes before they become problematic.

• Automatic Formatting: Prettier formats code consistently, ensuring a uniform code style throughout the project.
• Integration with Editors: Integrate Prettier with your code editor for on-the-fly formatting as you write code.

• Development Efficiency: Nodemon is configured to automatically restart the server during development when code changes are detected.
• Environment Variables: Dotenv-cli integration for managing environment variables in development and production setups.
• Production Ready: The starter is configured for deployment on platforms like Render.com and Vercel, with predefined build and start commands.

• Initialize Project: You can quickly bootstrap a new Express TypeScript project using the npx command.

npx sohanemon@latest express-ts my-express-app

npx sohanemon@latest express-ts my-express-app --yarn

npx sohanemon@latest express-ts my-express-app --pnpm

npx sohanemon@latest express-ts my-express-app --bun 

1. Clone the repository.
2. Install dependencies with npm install.
3. Start the development server with npm run dev.

• npm start: Launches the server.
• npm run build: Compiles TypeScript to JavaScript in the dist directory.
• npm run dev: Starts the development server with nodemon.
• npm run lint: Runs ESLint to check for linting errors.
• npm run format: Checks for formatting issues with Prettier.
• npm run format:write: Formats code with Prettier.

Follow the instructions in docs/render.md for deploying your application on Render.com.

Feel free to fork and use this starter template for your projects. Contributions to enhance this template are welcome.

This project is open-sourced under the MIT License.