ExpressFold

An express based MVC Framework

Installation create-expressfold

Please refer the below command to install "create-expressfold" globally.

Git should be installed in your system(ignore if already installed)

• Install Git in Windows
• Install Git in Linux
• Install Git in Mac

npm install -g npx
npm install -g create-expressfold

After installing "create-expressfold" globally, you can create expressfold project in your local system.

To create a new expressfold project

npx create-expressfold myfirstapp
cd myfirstapp
npm start

Rename example.env file to .env in the root directory

To make authentication scaffolding including auth middleware

npx expressfold make:auth

Add the below line in app.js before adding routes.

const {protect} = require('./app/Http/Middlewares/authMiddleware');

i.e.

const {protect} = require('./app/Http/Middlewares/authMiddleware');
app.use('/', require('./routes/webRoutes'));
app.use('/api/', require('./routes/apiRoutes'));

To make a new controller, model and routes i.e. ProjectController, Project Model and Project Routes

npx expressfold make:controller Project

Access directories easily with defined paths To access app directory

__app

To access base/root directory

__base

To access routes directory

__routes

To access public directory

__public

To access views directory

__views

To access config directory

__config

You can customize more in config/constants.js

To configure SMTP, Go to .env file and add the SMTP configuration in the given parameters.

MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USER='[email protected]'
MAIL_PASS='password'

Then, to send an email from any controller or route, you just have to import the mail configuration file. i.e const mailer = require('./config/mail.js');

To update any specific email options, For example, if you want to update email subject mailer.mailOptions.subject='This is updated subject';

// SMTP Server Config
const mailer =  require('./config/mail.js');

mailer.mailOptions.subject='This is updated subject';

mailer.transporter.sendMail(mailer.mailOptions, function (err, info) {
   if(err)
     console.log(err)
   else
     console.log(info);
});

For more information on nodemail