ts-app-bp

A boilerplate for an Express app using TypeScript and EJS.

Features

• Easy setup for an Express application with TypeScript.
• EJS templating for dynamic HTML rendering.
• Static file serving.
• Simple folder structure for organization.

Folder Structure

my-app/
│
├── src/
│   ├── public/
│   │   ├── styles.css
│   │   ├── images/
│   │   │   └── image.png
│   │   └── index.html
│   ├── views/
│   │   └── index.ejs
│   └── server.ts
├── dist/
│   └── (transpiled JavaScript files will be generated here by tsc)
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

Installation

Global Installation

To install the package globally, run:

npm install -g express-ts-bp

After installation, you can create a new Express TypeScript application by running:

create-express-ts-bp my-app

Using npx

If you prefer not to install globally, you can use npx to create a new application directly:

npx express-ts-bp my-app

This will create a new folder named my-app with the boilerplate structure.

Usage

After creating your app, navigate into your project directory:

cd my-app

To install dependencies, run:

npm install

Run the Server

To start our server we will need two terminals, one to run the typescript transpiler (which will generates the dist folder containing the compiled JavaScript files) and one to run our node server.

First Terminal:

tsc -w

Second Terminal:

nodemon dist/server.js