TypeScript project generator

This project has the goal to create a basic setup for a TypeScript project. It will create many files that are usually created manually. Currently the following files are being created:

• .env
• .eslintignore
• .eslintrc.js
• .gitignore
• .prettier
• changelog.md
• Dockerfile
• heroku.yml (optional)
• LICENSE (MIT as example)
• nodemon.json
• package.json
• readme.md
• tsconfig.json
• webpack.config.js

The following questions will be asked to the user:

• Yarn or npm?, only one of them is valid.
• Project name:, at least one character must be provided.
• Project description:, at least one character must be provided.
• Author:, at least one character must be provided.
• Email:, a correct email address must be provided.
• Project version (0.1.0): the initial version of the project, 0.1.0 as default.
• Select your license [1...7]:, the license you have chosen for the project.
• License year (current year):, the year where your license starts, current year as default.
• Will this project be deployed with Heroku? [y/n]:, yes or no question, only y or n is accepted. This is not case sensitive.
• Would you like to implement a express server with mongoose? [y/n]:, yes or no question, only y or n is accepted. This is not case sensitive.

What is new?

Please check the changelog.md file.

With express or without it?

Without express

A src folder will be created with the following structure:

📦src
 ┗ 📜index.ts

With express

A src folder will be created with the following structure:

📦src
 ┣ 📂controllers
 ┃ ┗ 📜users.ts
 ┣ 📂custom
 ┃ ┣ 📜error.ts
 ┃ ┣ 📜express.request.ts
 ┃ ┣ 📜express.response.ts
 ┃ ┗ 📜global.variables.ts
 ┣ 📂dto-interfaces
 ┃ ┗ 📜users.dto.ts
 ┣ 📂models
 ┃ ┗ 📜users.ts
 ┣ 📂network
 ┃ ┣ 📜response.ts
 ┃ ┣ 📜routes.ts
 ┃ ┗ 📜server.ts
 ┣ 📂routes
 ┃ ┣ 📜home.ts
 ┃ ┗ 📜users.ts
 ┗ 📜index.ts

Some considerations:

• If you choose this option, now you are able to run a server that has one main route, home (/), and another one, users (/users or /users/:userId).

• To connect your server with your MongoDB database, you need to provide your uri in the .env and uncomment the indicated lines in the src/network/server.ts file.

• Once you have done that, now you can perform the following HTTP REQUEST: GET, POST, PATCH and DELETE.

• In order to use the global variable declared in the src/custom/global.variables.ts file, you have to add the following lines in the external file you want to use it:

  import { CustomNodeJSGlobal } from "/direction/to/global.variables/file";
  declare const global: CustomNodeJSGlobal;

  Now, your are able to use the global variable.

• The provided project structure is inspired in my personal experience as Node.js developer and the Nest framework.

• The server is fully tested and has no errors (at least for now), feel free to report one here.

• Support for windows and linux platforms is available.

• Check the content of those files, here:

  • with-express
  • without-express

Finally, git will be initialized and a list of libraries will be installed. Check the notes.

Prerequisites

You need to have internet connection to install the packages and to get the license from this web page.

Installation

This project was intended to be installed globally, not locally, and also to initialize projects, be aware of that, you may broke something in your current working directory.

In order to install this package, run the following command in your terminal:

npm i -g typescript-project-generator

Usage

Once you have installed the package, please run the following command in your terminal:

tpg

This will guide you in a process to initialize your new project, asking you the questions shown above.

Notes

Here is the list of the packages that are being installed, as devDependencies:

• @types/node
• @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin
• @typescript-eslint/parser
• dotenv
• eslint
• eslint-config-airbnb-typescript
• eslint-config-prettier
• eslint-plugin-import
• eslint-plugin-prettier
• eslint-plugin-sort-keys-fix
• eslint-plugin-typescript-sort-keys
• nodemon
• prettier
• ts-loader
• ts-node
• typescript
• webpack
• webpack-cli
• webpack-node-externals

Optionals

As devDependencies:

• @types/express
• @types/mongoose
• @types/morgan

As dependencies:

• express
• mongoose
• morgan

Feel free to contribute to this project. Every contribution will be appreciated.

Author

• Anthony Luzquiños - Initial Work - Documentation - AnthonyLzq.