Typescript + Express + Prisma codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns, etc) that adheres to the RealWorld spec and API.

Demo    RealWorld

This codebase was created to demonstrate a backend built with Typescript + Express + Prisma including CRUD operations, authentication, routing, pagination, and more.

We've gone to great lengths to adhere to the Typescript community styleguides & best practices.

For more information on how to this works with other frontends/backends, head over to the RealWorld repo.

How it works

The project is build using TypeScript for language, Express for routing and server framework and Prisma as an ORM.

The project uses PostgreSQL for the database.

For unit testing it uses the Jest framework since it is what is promoted by prisma team to mock testing function that change the database.

Getting started

To run this project you should have node/npm installed.

Run npm install to install the dependencies.

Create a development environment file .env.development inside the root folder with the following attributes:

DATABASE_URL=file:./dev.db
JWT_SECRET=theSecretForCreatingTheJWT
NODE_ENV=development

• To update the database in development mode use npm run migrate:develop
• To run the development version npm run develop.
• To test the application npm test.
• To build a production version npm run build.
• To run the production build npm run start.