Hello and welcome to yet another express-backend/apirest that i've made.
I promise, this one will be the last, and the best of all 3 versions, mainly because I'm not using TS nor Docker, this is but just a simple express apirest, with JWT and Sequelize.
Its very easy to use as a template, and its extremely customizable.
- jsonwebtoken: for session management.
- Sequelize: ORM for database connection and transactions.
- dotenv: for environment variables ( configuration ).
- express-boom: for error response standardization.
- morgan: for console ( or to file ) logging.
- cors: for easy enabling cors.
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./utils/: A folder with utils to develop faster and better..env: File that holds a simulation of environment variables. ( you should pass your config values through env variables when deploying, its good practice!).requests.http: File used by the REST Client vscode extension, used to do requests to our api, similar to Postman but far lighter, and simpler.
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./helpers/: A folder containing tiny modules that will help us.session.js: A file containing all JSON web token logic, and also a middleware using inserver.jsthat verifies the token for each url-path, and also refreshes it.
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./config/: folder holding our configuration files.general.js: General configuration used through all the application. Grabs all configuration values from.env, and if they are not defined, it gives default values.database.js: Database configuration.
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./models/: A folder containing database table models.modelsManager.js: A file used to manage models, such as creating/altering tables, or even associating them.
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./routers/: A folder containing all routers of eachcontroller.masterRouter: A file encapsulating all routers, from each router file.
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./controllers/: A folder containing all express endpoints, and business logic. -
./server.js: You should at least open this file once if you're going to use this :p .