ES6 Rest Boilerplate

Boilerplate to create Rest Apis with Mongoose, Express and ES6.

Project uses babel to use the ES6 features, the Mongoose ORM to make it easier to manipulate data with the MongoDB and the Express web framework to create the api.

To keep the code with a unique code style the boilerplate includes Eslint with the airbnb-base code style.

Installation

• git clone git@github.com:matheusrocha89/es6-rest-boilerplate.git
• npm install

Run the project

Development mode: npm run dev

Production mode: npm start

After configuring your database env variables remove the comments on the ./index.js file:

// Remove the comment when you configured the database env variables
// import dbConnect from './src/database';

// dbConnect();

Environment variables:

The project uses enviroment variables create some configurations.

Below you see the variables and the default values of it.

  // App port
  APP_PORT = 8888


  // Database enviroment variables

  // Mongodb URI to connect.
  DB_URI = 'localhost'

  // Mongodb port to connect
  DB_PORT = '27017'

  // Database user
  DB_USER = ''

  // Database password
  DB_PASS = ''

  // Database name to connect
  DB_NAME = 'dbname'

Generate your API Documentation

This boilerplate uses the apidoc (apidocjs) to generate the documentation of your api. To generate the doc just run:

npm run doc

The documentation files will be generated on folder ./apidoc.

For more information about the doc generation read the apidocjs documentation.

License

MIT