Template for building REST APIs with Node and Koa JS

• App setup
• Linting
• Router
• Test setup
• Database setup
• Logging
• Validation setup with @hapi/joi

• Node
• MongoDB
• KoaJS

• Fork the repository
• Install dependencies using either yarn install or npm install
• Setup your database and environmental variables as shown in the .env.example file
• Add your code
• Run

• From your middleware folder, create a .js file to hold your middleware

 const { Joi, itemTypes, validate } = require('../utils/validator'); const registrationSchema = Joi.object({ username: Joi.string().min(4).max(30).required(), password: Joi.string().required() }); const validateRegistration = () => validate({ schema: registrationSchema, itemType: itemType.body, opt: { abortEarly: false } }); module.exports = validateRegistration; 

• import the validateRegistration middleware for the registration route
• Then add it to your route

 router.post('/api/v1/signup', validateRegistration(), (ctx) => { // Enter signup code here... }); 

• create a models folder inside the src folder
• define your mongoose models and you are good to go.

• run npm run dev

• run npm test