Example Node.js server

Implementation of example backend application written in TypeScript powered by Express running on Node.js.

Features

• Database connection (MySQL)
• ORM
• HTTP REST API
• Logger
• Authentication

Usage

Application requires MySQL database. Ensure you have access to a MySQL database server. You can initialize the database with db_init.sql script. Database contains user with credentials admin@admin.com / password.

To run this application, you'll need Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer.

Then from your command line:

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the app in development
npm run start:dev

# Build the production version
npm run build

# Build and run the production version
npm run start

# Compile the production bundle to executable binary
npm run compile

IMPORTANT: When you run the executable binary, ensure you have the proper .env file in the same directory as the binary.

Built With

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Express
• TypeORM
• Winston
• Zod
• JWT
• bcrypt

Performance

Performance tests and their results can be seen here.

Licence

MIT