ExpressMVC

ExpressMvc is a full-structured simple boilerplate for Express.js based on MVC structure.

• Structured config files
• manage database connections
• manage routes
• manage config files
• manage your controllers
• Structured models

Installation

$ npm install expressmvc

start to develope your application with

$ npm run-script run-dev

Routing

all of your application routes will be saved into ./app/lib/routes folder.

./app/routes/index.js

    var express = require('express');
    var router = express.Router();
    router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
        res.render('index', {title: 'ExpressMVC Bolierplate'})
    });

After you created you routes you have to register them into ./app/lib/route.js file:

    import index from './routes/index';
    import users from './routes/users';
    
    function register(app) { 
        app.use('/', index);
        app.use('/users', users);
    }

Also, you can register your route level middlewares and your error handlers in the route.js file.

Controllers

All of your application controllers goes into ./app/controllers folder.

import BaseController from '../BaseController';
import UserModel from '../../models/users';

export default class IndexController extends BaseController {
    index(req, res, next) {
        res.render('index', { title: 'ExpressMVC Bolierplate' });
    }
}

Router and Controllers

Also, you can instantiate a controller within your routers.

./app/routes/index.js

import IndexController from '../controllers/index/IndexController';
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();

/* GET home page. */
router.use(function(req, res, next) {
  console.log("Route Middleware");
  next();
});

router.get('/', new IndexController().index);
module.exports = router;

Models

All of your applications' models goes into ./app/models folder.

import mongoos from 'mongoose';
var userSchema = new mongoos.Schema({
    name: String,
    lastName: String,
    age: {type: Number, default: null},
    password: String
});
mongoos.model('User', userSchema);

Currently, ExpressMVC works with Mongoose object mondeling for MongoDB.

Configs

All of your configs files should be in ./config folder. ./config/main.js

configs =  Object.assign({
    project: 'ExpressMVC Boilderplate', 
    url: 'localhost', 
    port: process.env.PORT || 3000,    
});

module.exports = configs;

Whenever you created a new config, by passing it to registerConfigs() function which is in app.js file, your config file will accessible with app.get('CONFIG_KEY').

    import config from './config/main';
    registerConfigs(app, config);