Express Boilerplate!

This is a boilerplate project used for starting new projects!

Set up

Complete the following steps to start a new project (NEW-PROJECT-NAME):

1. Clone this repository to your local machine git clone BOILERPLATE-URL NEW-PROJECT-NAME
2. cd into the cloned repository
3. Make a fresh start of the git history for this project with rm -rf .git && git init
4. Install the node dependencies npm install
5. Move the example Environment file to .env that will be ignored by git and read by the express server mv example.env .env
6. Edit the contents of the package.json to use NEW-PROJECT-NAME instead of "name": "express-boilerplate",

Scripts

Start the application npm start

Start nodemon for the application npm run dev

Run the tests npm test