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https://github.com/rajarakoto/node-boilerplate

Minimalistic boilerplate to quick-start Node.js development in TypeScript ๐Ÿš€
https://github.com/rajarakoto/node-boilerplate

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Minimalistic boilerplate to quick-start Node.js development in TypeScript ๐Ÿš€

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# node-boilerplate ๐Ÿš€

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**Developer Ready: A comprehensive template. Works out of the box for most Node.js projects. This project is intended to be used with the latest active LTS release of Node.js.**

Instant Value - All basic tools included and configured:

- ๐Ÿš€ Typescript >= 5.3
- ๐ŸŒ Node.js >= 20.10.0
- ๐Ÿง… Use Bun as package manager
- ๐ŸŒˆ ES
- ๐Ÿงช Biome for code formatting and linting
- โœ… Jest or Bun test for fast unit testing and code coverage
- ๐Ÿ“š Type definitions for Node.js and Jest
- โš™๏ธ EditorConfig for consistent coding style
- ๐Ÿ“ฆ NPM scripts for common operations
- โšก Reproducible environments thanks to Volta
- ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Example configuration for GitHub Actions
- ๐Ÿ“ Simple example of TypeScript code and unit test
- ๐Ÿ— Run tasks with Grunt (example for backup)
- ๐Ÿš„ Build faster with ESBuild
- ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Ungit for version control (git) with a GUI
- ๐Ÿ”‘ Dotenv for environment variables
- ๐Ÿ”„ Nodemon for automatic restarts node server in development
- ๐Ÿ”Œ Tsc-watch for automatic transpile source files in development
- ๐Ÿ“˜ Runtime library for TypeScript helpers with tslib
- ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ Utility functions for working with ts-api-utils

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### ๐Ÿ“Œ Usage

To use this template, use the following commands:

```bash
bun create github.com/RajaRakoto/node-boilerplate
cd
bun run pkg-upgrade # to upgrade outdated dependencies in interactive mode
```

> NOTE 1: I employ the `MIT license` for this starter kit, which includes my name and GitHub profile. Please remember to adjust or remove it if deemed unnecessary.

> NOTE 2: In order to help you better understand the structure of this boilerplate, there is a `README.md` file in each subdirectory of src.

> NOTE 3: For certain configurations in the `package.json` file, you need to modify them to tailor them to your project (e.g: name, description, author, keywords, main, repository, ...).

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### ๐Ÿ“Œ NPM Scripts

**Start**

- ๐Ÿ“œ `start` - Run your application with Node.js.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `start:bundle` - Run your application with Node.js using the bundled JavaScript file from dist.

**Clean**

- ๐Ÿ“œ `clean` - Remove coverage data, prod, build.

**Development**

- ๐Ÿ“œ `dev:tsc:watch` - Interactive watch mode to automatically transpile source files with tsc-watch in development.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `dev:nodemon:watch` - Interactive watch mode to automatically restart Node.js server in development with nodemon.

**Build**

- ๐Ÿ“œ `build` - Transpile TypeScript to ES6.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `build:watch` - Interactive watch mode to automatically transpile source files .
- ๐Ÿ“œ `build:bundle` - Bundle source files with ESbuild.

**Testing**

- ๐Ÿ“œ `test` - Run bun test.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `test:watch` - Interactive watch mode to automatically re-run tests with bun.

**Linting and Formatting**

- ๐Ÿ“œ `biome:start` - Starts the Biome daemon server. You can specify a custom configuration file path using the `--config-path` option.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `biome:stop` - Stops the Biome daemon server.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `biome:fix` - Runs a source code check and applies automatic fixes (linter & formatter) according to the defined rules.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `biome:unsafe` - Works like `biome:fix`, but may apply more invasive or risky changes.

**Backup and Dependency Management**

- ๐Ÿ“œ `backup` - Backup files with Grunt.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `pkg-check` - Check useless dependencies with depcheck.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `pkg-upgrade` - Upgrade outdated dependencies (interactive mode) with npm-check-updates.

**Versioning**

- ๐Ÿ“œ `versioning` - Start ungit server.

**NPM Commands**

- ๐Ÿ“œ `npm-version:major` - Increments the major version number of your project using npm.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `npm-version:minor` - Increments the minor version number of your project using npm.
- ๐Ÿ“œ `npm-version:patch` - Increments the version patch number of your project using npm.

**NVM**

- ๐Ÿ“œ `nvm` - Manage multiple node.js versions. Easily switch between node versions per project to ensure compatibility.

> NOTE: `dev.tsc.watch` and `dev:nodemon:watch` script are designed to run at the same time when developing your application.

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### ๐Ÿ“Œ Similar

You can also check out my other starter projects:

- ๐Ÿš€ [bun-boilerplate](https://github.com/RajaRakoto/bun-boilerplate)
- ๐Ÿš€ [react-boilerplate](https://github.com/RajaRakoto/react-boilerplate)
- ๐Ÿš€ [next-boilerplate](https://github.com/RajaRakoto/next-boilerplate)
- ๐Ÿš€ [qwik-boilerplate](https://github.com/RajaRakoto/qwik-boilerplate)
- ๐Ÿš€ [vscode-boilerplate](https://github.com/RajaRakoto/vscode-boilerplate)
- ๐Ÿš€ [cli-boilerplate](https://github.com/RajaRakoto/cli-boilerplate)