easy-express is a CLI tool to automate the setup of a common Express.js backend. This tool helps you quickly scaffold a backend setup without rewriting the setup each time.
- Predefined Backend Setup: Copies a predefined backend setup to your current working directory.
 - Common Configurations: Includes configurations such as 
.env.example,.eslintignore,.eslintrc,.gitignore,.prettierrc,docker-compose.yml,Dockerfile,package.json, andtsconfig.json. - Prebuilt Functionalities:
- 🔐 Authentication and authorization
 - 🔑 JWT handling
 - 🔗 Login with Google Auth
 - 📜 Logger setup
 - 🐳 Docker configuration
 - 🚀 Redis integration
 - 📂 File upload middleware (Cloudinary, AWS S3)
 - 📘 Swagger for API documentation
 - 🍪 Cookies handling
 - 🔒 Security features
 - 🛠️ Many more features upcoming
 
 
npm install -g easy-express-cwa
mkdir servercd servernpx easy-express-cwaConfigure your environment variables:
Copy the .env.example file to .env and update the values as needed:
NODE_ENV=development
PORT=8000
DB_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/yourdb
ENCRYPTION_METHOD=AES-256-CBC
ENCRYPTION_KEY=DR8j97BtgHVBiEKAjqRlfn6VSLTJTIpwsgNo0vTWKvA=
BCRYPT_SALT_ROUNDS=14
DOMAIN=yourdomain.com
APP_ID=your-app-id
APP_CERTIFICATE=your-app-certificate
JWT_SECRET=GiCj9Qrmy4vYeDbBjrVCszy0xlN5PGZQQ77iLExHVuI=
JWT_REFRESH_SECRET=jiS8zP3qHU2fgKblrhqVKhFEYYqpwsrh/6Z/Ak0ZhL8=
JWT_EXPIRATION_TIME=3d
JWT_REFRESH_EXPIRATION_TIME=3d
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=""
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=""
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=""
REDIS_PASSWORD=your-redis-password
REDIS_HOST=your-redis-host
REDIS_PORT=your-redis-port
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=your-google-client-id
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=your-google-client-secret
GOOGLE_CALLBACK_URL=your-google-callback-url
GOOGLE_REDIRECT_URL=your-google-redirect-url
GOOGLE_APP_USER=your-google-app-user
GOOGLE_APP_PASSWORD=your-google-app-password
Here's the folder structure generated by easy-express:
└── 📁 server
    └── 🚫 .dockerignore
    └── 🛠️ .env
    └── 🛠️ .env.example
    └── 🐳 Dockerfile
    └── 📜 README.md
    └── 🐳 docker-compose.yml
    └── 📦 package.json
    └── 📁 src
        └── 📁 app
            └── 📁 middlewares
                └── 🔒 auth.ts
                └── 📁 cloudinary
                    └── ☁️ cloudinary.ts
                └── ⚠️ globalErrorHandler.ts
                └── 🛠️ handleZodError.ts
                └── 📁 multer
                    └── 📤 multer.ts
                └── 📁 redis
                    └── 🛠️ redis.ts
                └── ✅ validateRequest.ts
            └── 📁 modules
                └── 📁 auth
                    └── 👤 auth.controller.ts
                    └── 🚦 auth.route.ts
                    └── 🛠️ auth.service.ts
                └── 📁 example
                    └── 📄 example.controller.ts
                    └── 📄 example.interface.ts
                    └── 🗃️ example.model.ts
                    └── 🚦 example.route.ts
                    └── 🛠️ example.service.ts
                    └── ✅ example.validation.ts
                └── 📁 googleOAuth
                    └── 🌐 googleOAuth.controller.ts
                    └── 🚦 googleOAuth.route.ts
                    └── 🛠️ googleOAuth.service.ts
                └── 📁 user
                    └── 👤 user.controller.ts
                    └── 🗃️ user.interface.ts
                    └── 🗃️ user.model.ts
                    └── 🚦 user.route.ts
                    └── 🛠️ user.service.ts
                    └── ✅ user.validation.ts
            └── 📁 routes
                └── 🚦 index.ts
        └── 🛠️ app.ts
        └── 📁 config
            └── ⚙️ index.ts
            └── 🛂 passport.ts
        └── 📁 constants
            └── 💬 message.ts
            └── 🔢 pagination.ts
            └── ⏳ redisCacheExpireDate.ts
            └── 🔑 redisKeys.ts
        └── 📁 enums
            └── 📄 common.ts
            └── 📄 user.ts
        └── 📁 errors
            └── 🛠️ ApiError.ts
            └── ❌ handleCastError.ts
            └── 🛠️ handleValidationError.ts
            └── 🛠️ handleZodError.ts
        └── 📁 helpers
            └── 🛡️ jwtHelper.ts
            └── 🛠️ paginationHelper.ts
        └── 📁 interfaces
            └── 📄 common.ts
            └── 📄 error.ts
            └── 📄 index.d.ts
            └── 📄 pagination.ts
        └── 🛠️ server.ts
        └── 📁 shared
            └── 🛠️ catchAsync.ts
            └── 📋 logger.ts
            └── 🛠️ pick.ts
            └── ✉️ sendResponse.ts
        └── 📁 utils
            └── 📧 mail.util.ts
            └── 🔑 oAuth.ts
    └── ⚙️ tsconfig.json
    └── 📦 yarn.lock
Access the Swagger API documentation at http://localhost:3000/api-docs.
Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request for any improvements.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
For any inquiries or feedback, please reach out at codewithashim@gmail.com.
To add the example code snippets for the example entity CRUD operations in your README.md file, you can follow this structure:
- Overview of the Example Module
 - Interface
 - Model
 - Controller
 - Service
 - Route
 - Validation
 
Here’s how you can add them to your README.md:
This module provides CRUD operations for the example entity. Below are the code snippets for the controller, interface, model, route, service, and validation.
import { Model } from "mongoose";
export type IExample = {
  title: string;
  description: string;
  createdAt?: Date;
  updatedAt?: Date;
}
export type ExampleModel =Model<IExample, Record<string, unknown>>;import { Schema, model } from "mongoose";
import { IExample, ExampleModel } from "./example.interface";
const ExampleSchema = new Schema<IExample>(
  {
    name: {
      type: String,
      required: true,
    },
    description: {
      type: String,
      required: true,
    },
  },
  {
    timestamps: true,
    toJSON: {
      virtuals: true,
    },
  }
);
export const Example = model<IExample, ExampleModel>("Example", ExampleSchema);import { Request, Response } from "express";
import httpStatus from "http-status";
import catchAsync from "../../../shared/catchAsync";
import sendResponse from "../../../shared/sendResponse";
import { IExample } from "./example.interface";
import { ExampleService } from "./example.service";
import { responseMessage } from "../../../constants/message";
const getAllExamples = catchAsync(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
  const result = await ExampleService.getAllExamples();
  
  sendResponse<IExample[]>(res, {
    statusCode: httpStatus.OK,
    success: true,
    message: responseMessage.GET_ALL_EXAMPLES_MESSAGE,
    data: result,
  });
});
const getExampleById = catchAsync(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
  const result = await ExampleService.getExampleById(req.params.id);
  sendResponse<IExample>(res, {
    statusCode: httpStatus.OK,
    success: true,
    message: responseMessage.GET_EXAMPLE_BY_ID_MESSAGE,
    data: result,
  });
});
const updateExample = catchAsync(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
  const id = req.params.id;
  const updatedData = req.body;
  const result = await ExampleService.updateExample(id, updatedData);
  sendResponse<IExample>(res, {
    statusCode: httpStatus.OK,
    success: true,
    message: responseMessage.UPDATE_EXAMPLE_MESSAGE,
    data: result,
  });
});
const deleteExample = catchAsync(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
  const { id } = req.params;
  const result = await ExampleService.deleteExample(id);
  sendResponse<IExample>(res, {
    statusCode: httpStatus.OK,
    success: true,
    message: responseMessage.DELETE_EXAMPLE_MESSAGE,
    data: result,
  });
});
export const ExampleController = {
  getAllExamples,
  getExampleById,
  updateExample,
  deleteExample,
};import ApiError from "../../../errors/ApiError";
import { Example } from "./example.model";
import { IExample } from "./example.interface";
import httpStatus from "http-status";
import { responseMessage } from "../../../constants/message";
const getAllExamples = async (): Promise<Array<IExample>> => {
  try {
    const examples = await Example.find();
    return examples;
  } catch (error) {
    throw new ApiError(
      httpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
      `${responseMessage.FAILED_MESSAGE} get all examples`
    );
  }
};
const getExampleById = async (id: string): Promise<IExample | null> => {
  try {
    const example = await Example.findById(id);
    if (!example) {
      throw new ApiError(
        httpStatus.NOT_FOUND,
        `Example ${responseMessage.NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE}`
      );
    }
    return example;
  } catch (error) {
    throw new ApiError(
      httpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
      `${responseMessage.FAILED_MESSAGE} get example by ID`
    );
  }
};
const updateExample = async (
  id: string,
  payload: Partial<IExample>
): Promise<IExample | null> => {
  try {
    const isExist = await Example.findOne({ _id: id });
    if (!isExist) {
      throw new ApiError(
        httpStatus.NOT_FOUND,
        `Example ${responseMessage.NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE}`
      );
    }
    const updateExampleData = payload;
    const result = await Example.findOneAndUpdate({ _id: id }, updateExampleData, {
      new: true,
    });
    return result;
  } catch (error) {
    throw new ApiError(
      httpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
      `${responseMessage.FAILED_MESSAGE} update example`
    );
  }
};
const deleteExample = async (id: string): Promise<IExample | null> => {
  try {
    const example = await Example.findByIdAndDelete(id);
    if (!example) {
      throw new ApiError(
        httpStatus.NOT_FOUND,
        `Example ${responseMessage.NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE}`
      );
    }
    return example;
  } catch (error) {
    throw new ApiError(
      httpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
      `${responseMessage.FAILED_MESSAGE} delete example`
    );
  }
};
export const ExampleService = {
  getAllExamples,
  getExampleById,
  updateExample,
  deleteExample,
};import express from "express";
import validateRequest from "../../middlewares/validateRequest";
import { ExampleController } from "./example.controller";
import { createExampleValidator } from "./example.validation";
const router = express.Router();
router.get("/", ExampleController.getAllExamples);
router.get("/:id", ExampleController.getExampleById);
router.patch(
  "/:id",
  validateRequest(createExampleValidator.updateExampleZodSchema),
  ExampleController.updateExample
);
router.delete("/:id", ExampleController.deleteExample);
export const ExampleRoutes = routerimport { z } from "zod";
const createExampleZodSchema = z.object({
  body: z.object({
    name: z.string({
      required_error: "Name is required",
    }),
    description: z.string({
      required_error: "Description is required",
    }),
  }),
});
const updateExampleZodSchema = z.object({
  body: z.object({
    name: z.string().optional(),
    description: z.string().optional(),
  }),
});
export const createExampleValidator = {
  createExampleZodSchema,
  updateExampleZodSchema,
};