Express Boilerplate!

This is a boilerplate project used for starting new express servers.

Set up

Complete the following steps to start a new project (NEW-PROJECT-NAME):

1. Clone this repository to your local machine git clone BOILERPLATE-REPO-URL NEW-PROJECT-NAME
2. cd into the cloned repository
3. Make a fresh start of the git history for this project with rm -rf .git && git init
4. Install the node dependencies npm i
5. Move the example Environment file to .env that will be ignored by git and read by the express server mv example.env .env
6. Edit the contents of the package.json to use "name": "NEW-PROJECT-NAME" instead of "name": "express-boilerplate",

Abridged version:

1. Pick a project name, PROJECT-NAME-HERE
2. projectname=PROJECT-NAME-HERE && git clone git@github.com:jamesjenkinsjr/express-boilerplate.git $projectname && cd $_ && rm -rf .git && git init && npm i && mv example.env .env && vim package.json && git add -A && git commit -m "initial server commit" (NOTE: You will be prompted to use vim to edit package.json project name)

Scripts

Start the application npm start

Start nodemon for the application npm run dev

Run the tests (mocha/chai) npm test

Deploying

When your new project is ready for deployment, add a new Heroku application with heroku create. This will make a new git remote called "heroku" and you can then npm run deploy which will push to this remote's master branch.