Prisma Express Server

Base Express server template with Prisma ORM (v3), routing-controllers, JWT authentication & TypeScript

Features

• TypeScript
• Prisma ORM
• Routing controllers
• JWT Authentication
• Authorization and roles
• Eslint
• Prettier
• DTO pattern
• Validations
• Global error handler
• Dotenv config

Project structure

📦src # Main folder of code
 ┣ 📂controllers # Folder for handlers functions called from routes
 ┣ 📂dtos # DTO pattern for handling data
 ┣ 📂exceptions # Global handle error
 ┣ 📂interfaces # Interfaces for greater abstraction
 ┣ 📂middleware # Folder for express middlewares
 ┣ 📂server # Express server instance with routing-controllers config
 ┣ 📂services # Services for write core code bussiness
 ┣ 📂utils # Utils for usage in the application
 ┗ 📜app.ts # Main file

Install

Install required packages with

npm install

or

yarn install

Initial configuration

Create an .env file and setup the variables

cp .env.example .env

Migrate with prisma in order to create the required database tables

npx prisma migrate deploy

or

yarn prisma migrate deploy

Development

While editing your code, you probably want to automatically build your application and watch for changes with nodemon, in order to achieve that, just run npm run dev and npm run dev:watch or yarn dev and yarn dev:watch

Production

Build your application with npm run build or yarn build and then run it with node start or yarn start

Author

David Rodarte

• Website: https://davidrodarte.vercel.app
• Github: @DavidRodarte

Licence

MIT