Node Express Boilerplate

This is a basic boilerplate for backend development with node and express

It comes setup with the following features

• Authentication (passport & JWT)
• Validation
• Password Encryption (bcryptjs)
• Authorization and Access level control
• Database configuration with Sequelize ORM
• CORS (Bonus)

To get started,

• clone this repository
• cd node-express-boilerplate
• run yarn install
• configure your database by creating a .env file in your project root directory with contents similar to

  DB_HOST=localhost
  DB_NAME=test
  DB_USERNAME=root
  DB_PASSWORD=
  DB_DIALECT=mysql
  

  make sure to replace the values with yours
• be sure to have nodemon installed
• yarn run dev
• if you don't have nodemon installed, change your dev script in package.json to node --exec babel-node src/index.js

To deploy to production,

• run yarn run build to generate the build folder
• upload the build server to your server

Contributions are welcomed

"# alumni-server" "# alumni-server"